QUOTATIONS: HAPPINESS
Updated February 15, 2000
"Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, it may alight upon you." -Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Years and years of happiness only make us realize how lucky we are to have friends that have shared and made that happiness a reality." -Robert E. Frederick
"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life." -Albert Camus
"The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make." -Aristotle
"The quality of life is determined by its activities" -Aristotle
"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh." -Friedrich Nietzsche
"People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be." -Abraham Lincoln
"People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong.. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?" -Thich Nhat Hanh
"When you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else." -Joseph Campbell
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." -Helen Keller
"Our real blessings often appear to us in the shapes of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures." -Joseph Addison
"The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phase; if you pursue happiness, you'll never find it." -C.P. Snow
