“The
full use of your powers along lines of excellence.”
John F. Kennedy (when asked to define happiness)
“The
greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.”
Martha Washinton
“What
do you take me for, an idiot?”
General Charles de Gaulle (when a journalist asked him if he was
happy.)
“To
be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have.”
Ken S. Keyes, Jr.
“The
secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.”
F.H. Bradley
“Most
people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Happiness
is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get,
but we make a life by what we give.”
Norman MacEwan
“Talk
happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.”
Orison Sweet Marden
“The
road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that
interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your
whole soul into it; every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability
you have.”
John D. Rockefeller III
“To
be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”
Betrand Russell