There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
-Francis Bacon
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
-Karen Maezen Miller
"Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life"
Human intelligence lies in making such choices that whatever he desires or
attains out of them...the end result should only be happiness.
-Deep Trivedi
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
-Ray Bradbury
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
-John Dewey
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
-W. P. Kinsella
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
-Colette
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
-Albert Camus
