Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
-Epicurus
Quotations
Happiness
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
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
-Alexandre Dumas
We know, how to build a beautiful house, but we don’t know how to live within it happily.
-J. Krishnamurti
Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.
-William J. Bennett
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
Let us live happily, we who have no impediments. We shall subsist on joy even as the radiant gods.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada"
I am so happy in your happiness. To you, happiness is a form of freedom, and of all the people I know you should be free.
-Khalil Gibran
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-Benjamin Franklin
You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does.
-Sri Chinmoy
