Courtesy of Henrik Edberg The Positivity Blog
“For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.”
Seneca
“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”
Albert Einstein
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
Bertrand Russell
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
“Happiness is a myth we seek,
If manifested surely irks;
Like river speeding to the plain,
On its arrival slows and murks.
For man is happy only in
His aspiration to the heights;
When he attains his goal, he cools
And longs for other distant flights.”
Kahlil Gibran
“Happiness is a state of activity.”
Aristotle
“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
Confucius
“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other – it is our own.
Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
“Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.”
Friedrich Schiller
“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.”
Winston Churchill
“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.”
Andy Rooney
“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”
James Oppenheim
“I’d far rather be happy than right any day.”
Douglas Adams
“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”
Albert Schweitzer
“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”
Heraclitus
“Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Herman Hesse
