More quotations tagged with “happiness”
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
—Aristotle
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
—George Bernard Shaw
The child who was happy with herself meant the parents had won the jackpot.
—Meg Wolitzer in The Interestings
I don't know what it is about death that makes it so hard. I suppose it's the one-sided communication; the fact that we never get to ask our loved one if she suffered, if she is happy wherever she is now… if she is somewhere. It's the question mark that comes with death that we can't face, not the period.
—Jodi Picoult in The Storyteller
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
—Gustave Flaubert