Showing posts with label quotes by famous people on happiness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quotes by famous people on happiness. Show all posts

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Quotes on Happiness

Quotes on Happiness

"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves,
and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."

- Agnes Repplier


"Why not seize the pleasure at once?
How often is happiness destroyed
by preparation, foolish preparation!"

- Jane Austen


"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how
dearly we pay for its counterfeit."

- Hosea Ballou


"It takes great wit and interest and energy
to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a
great activity. One must be open and alive.
It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish."

- Robert Herrick


"The happiness of a man in this life
does not consist in the absence but
in the mastery of his passions."

- Alfred Lord Tennyson