* Happiness Quotations (Quotes at Davar Web Site) 01/08/2009-11/21/2011 * ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * %DEV%:\PBASIC\CONVQUO %DEV%:\DAVAR\QUOTES\HAPINES Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a great tree in the midst of them all. #[Buddha Gautama] (563-483 BC) If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. #[Epicurus] (341-270 BC) Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. #[Plutarch] (AD 46-120) There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. #[Epictetus] (AD 55 – AD 135) Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable. #[Tacitus] (AD 56-115) There is a most absurd and audacious method of reasoning avowed by some bigots and enthusiasts, and through fear assented to by some wiser and better men; it is this. They argue against a fair discussion of popular prejudices, because, say they, tho" they would be found without any reasonable support, yet the discovery might be productive of the most dangerous consequences. Absurd and blasphemous notion! As if all happiness was not connected with the practice of virtue, which necessarily depends upon the knowledge of truth. #[Edmund Burke] (1729–1797)
"A Vindication of Natural Society" Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. #[George Washington] (1732–1799) Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. #[Albert Schweitzer] (1875-1965) ================================================================================