Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
-Andy Rooney
Quotations
Happiness
Happy people produce. Bored people consume.
-Stephen Richards
I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.
-Sebastian Horsley
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
-Karl Marx
Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
-Epicurus
Those with indomitable spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm, that is true happiness.
-A Spiritual Leader "Paramahansa Yogananda"
If you think happiness is a rare bird, you won't see much of it.
-Marty Rubin
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Of Human Bondage"
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"
Strength is happiness. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness.
-Daisaku Ikeda "Daisaku Ikeda"
