Happiness is not a goal... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Quotations
Happiness
I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.
-Megan McCafferty
"Second Helpings"
Why should we build our happiness on the opinions of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
"The Social Contract and Discourses"
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
-Henry Ford
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
-Marty Rubin
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
-Eric Hoffer
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller
