That happiness which comes after misery is all the more enjoyable; it is to one scorched in the sun that the shade of the tree gives exceptional relief.
-Kalidas "Kalidas"
That happiness which comes after misery is all the more enjoyable; it is to one scorched in the sun that the shade of the tree gives exceptional relief.
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called ‘All The Things That Could Go Wrong’.
-Marianne Williamson
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.
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
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
-Leo Tolstoy
"Anna Karenina"
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-Benjamin Franklin
Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
-Epicurus
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
-Bertrand Russell
Rain clouds come floating in, not to muddy my days ahead, but to make me calm, happy and hopeful.