Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
-Andy Rooney
Quotations
Happiness
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
When you let go of past pain, believe in yourself and follow your dreams—you can find true happiness!
-Casi McLean
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"
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
The difference between love and happiness is that those who talk about love tend to be in love, but those who talk about happiness tend to be not happy.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A mathematical formula for happiness: Reality divided by Expectations. There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations.
-Jodi Picoult
"Nineteen Minutes"
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
-Epictetus
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 should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.
-A Spiritual Leader "Paramahansa Yogananda"
