You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does.
-Sri Chinmoy
Quotations
Happiness
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
-Bertrand Russell
Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.
-A Spiritual Leader "Paramahansa Yogananda"
There is no end to craving. Hence, contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Stay content.
-Swami Sivananda "Swami Sivananda"
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
-Robert Frost
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
-Epictetus
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
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
No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.
-Paulo Coelho
"The Zahir"
If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
-Jules Renard
"The Journal of Jules Renard"
