Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings… It’s something we make inside ourselves.
-Cornelia "Corrie" Ten Boom
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness is a late discovery.
-Fadi Dabour
Lao Tan said, “I was letting my mind wander in the beginning of things.”
“What does this mean?” asked Confucius. Lao Tan said, “It means to attain Perfect Beauty and wander in Perfect Happiness. He who attains Perfect Beauty and wanders in Perfect Happiness may be called the Perfect Man.”
-Scriptures "Chuang Tzu 21"
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
-W. P. Kinsella
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
-Madonna
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
-Eric Hoffer
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
-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"
