For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Happiness
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 is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
-Mary Baker Eddy
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
-George Washington
I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.
-Sebastian Horsley
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
-Karl Marx
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
-Aristotle
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
-Francis Bacon
