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
Quotations
Happiness
I am so happy in your happiness. To you, happiness is a form of freedom, and of all the people I know you should be free.
-Khalil Gibran
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.
-William J. Bennett
Happy is the unity of the Sangha. Happy is the discipline of the united ones.
-Dhammapada " Dhammapada 194"
Nothing in the world can make you happy; everything in the world can encourage you to be happy.
-Robert Holden
"Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good FAST"
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
-George Washington
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"
