If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.
-Alfred Bester
"The Stars My Destination"
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
-Marty Rubin
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
-Bertrand Russell
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Khalil Gibran
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Of Human Bondage"
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
-Aristotle
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
-Alexandre Dumas
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-Ernest Hemingway
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
-Epictetus
