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
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
No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.
-Paulo Coelho
"The Zahir"
Happiness is not the absence of problems. It’s the ability to deal with them.
-Steve Maraboli
"Life, the Truth, and Being Free"
Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.
-Zaroaster "Zaroaster"
I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.
-Megan McCafferty
"Second Helpings"
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
-Henry Ford
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
-Karl Marx
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
-John Dewey
