Why should we build our happiness on the opinions of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
"The Social Contract and Discourses"
Quotations
Happiness
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
-W. P. Kinsella
I am so happy in your happiness. To you, happiness is a form of freedom, and of all the people I know you should be free.
-Khalil Gibran
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
-Leo Tolstoy
"Anna Karenina"
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
-Henry Ford
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
-Tom Bodett
Don't put off happiness you can have today. Tomorrow is a hope, not a promise.
-Debra Anastasia
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
-Epictetus
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
-Marty Rubin
