We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Khalil Gibran
Quotations
Happiness
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
-Eric Hoffer
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
-William Saroyan
"My Heart's in the Highlands"
Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
-Karen Maezen Miller
"Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life"
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"
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
-Henry Ford
One never knows what joy one might find amongst the unwanted.
-Anonymous
"The movie,Kinky Boots"
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
Happy are those who work for peace: God will call them his children.
-Jesus Christ
