Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
-Aristotle
Quotations
Happiness
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 in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-Ernest Hemingway
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller
Lao Tan said, “I was letting my mind wander in the beginning of things.”
“What does this mean?” asked Confucius. Lao Tan said, “It means to attain Perfect Beauty and wander in Perfect Happiness. He who attains Perfect Beauty and wanders in Perfect Happiness may be called the Perfect Man.”
-Scriptures "Chuang Tzu 21"
Human intelligence lies in making such choices that whatever he desires or
attains out of them...the end result should only be happiness.
-Deep Trivedi
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
-George Bernard Shaw
The difference between love and happiness is that those who talk about love tend to be in love, but those who talk about happiness tend to be not happy.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
-Robert Frost
Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
-Epicurus
