What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt and has a clear conscience?
-Adam Smith
Quotations
Happiness
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
-Colette
If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
-Jules Renard
"The Journal of Jules Renard"
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
-Jacques Prévert
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
-Maurice Maeterlinck "Maurice Maeterlinck"
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
-Marty Rubin
