Life, Albert Einstein

Let us not forget that knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. ... I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insects as well as for the stars, Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Happiness, George Orwell

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

- George Orwell (1903-1950)

Life, Marty Rubin

I don't want to be the one who says life is beautiful. I want to be the one who feels it.

- Marty Rubin

Money, Western proverb

Money can't buy happiness.

- Western proverb

Happiness, Drew Barrymore

I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.

― Drew Barrymore (1975- )

Food, Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

- Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826)

Appearance, Edward Chapin

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

- Edward Payson Chapin (1831-1863)

Happiness, Book of Proverbs

The perverse in heart come to no good, and the double-tongued fall into trouble.

+ Book of Proverbs 17, 20

[17:20] The saying employs the familiar metaphors of walking = conducting oneself (“fall into trouble”), and of straight and crooked = right and wrong (“perverse,” “double-tongued”).

http://www.usccb.org/bible/proverbs/17

Happiness, Dalai Lama

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

- 14th Dalai Lama (1935- )

Universe, Laughter

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

- Jean Houston (1937- )

Happiness, Aristotle

One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.

- Aristotle (384BC-322BC)

Happiness, Rita Mae Brown

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

- Rita Mae Brown (1944- )

Bliss, Happiness

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

- Louise Bogan (1897–1970), US-american Poet

Happiness, Chinese Proverb

If you want happiness for an hour? take a nap. If you want happiness for a day? Go fishing. If you want happiness for a year? Inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime? Help someone else.

- Chinese Proverb

Happiness, Booker T. Washington

I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

- Booker T. Washington (1858-1915)

Beauty, Steve Maraboli

You are beautiful. Your beauty, just like your capacity for life, happiness, and success, is immeasurable.

- Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Love, LEE Hi

Every rose has its thorn.

- LEE Hi, Rose

Every rose has its thorn. - Western Proverb

Every rose has its thorn.

- Western Proverb

Happiness, Confucius (孔子)

君子坦蕩湯 小人長戚戚 [君子坦荡荡、小人长戚戚。]

- 孔子, 論語 述而

The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.

- Confucius (孔子, 551BC–479BC)

Happiness, Lao-tzu

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

- Laozi (老子, 604 BC-? )