Those with indomitable spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm, that is true happiness.
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
-Colette
Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.
Happiness is only real when shared.
-Jon Krakauer
"Into the Wild"
Rain clouds come floating in, not to muddy my days ahead, but to make me calm, happy and hopeful.
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.
-Nicholas Sparks
"Dear John"
Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
-Epicurus
If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.
-Robert Brault
You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does.
-Sri Chinmoy
