Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Happiness
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"
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
-Bertrand Russell
Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.
-Alex Flinn
"The movie, Beastly"
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"
Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction, not from the vital’s or body’s satisfaction.
-Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo"
If you think happiness is a rare bird, you won't see much of it.
-Marty Rubin
There are those who give with joy and that joy is their reward.
-Khalil Gibran
Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.
-Dennis Wholey
