To be joyous in life, a few bites to eat in peace, pouring rains or cool breeze are
sufficient... Whereas for reasons to be sad, you can write thousands of books on
it.
-Deep Trivedi
Quotations
Happiness
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
-Epicurus
The only satisfactory definition of happiness is wholeness.
-Helen Keller
Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
-Audrey Niffenegger
"The Time Traveler's Wife"
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
-Colette
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
-John Lennon
What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt and has a clear conscience?
-Adam Smith
