It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
-Thomas Jefferson
Quotations
Happiness
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
-W. P. Kinsella
Yesterday I was sad, today I am happy! Yesterday I had a problem; today I still have the same problem! But today I changed the way I look at it!
-C. Joy Bell C.
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"
Everyone speaks of it, few know it.
-Marie Jeanne P. Roland
Happiness is only real when shared.
-Jon Krakauer
"Into the Wild"
Happy are those who work for peace: God will call them his children.
-Jesus Christ
What is the definition of joy? When you get an opportunity to do what you really
want to, the feeling that you experience then, is called "Joy".
-Deep Trivedi
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with Spring.
-George Santayana "George Santayana"
