There are those who give with joy and that joy is their reward.
-Khalil Gibran
Quotations
Happiness
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
-Leo Tolstoy
"Anna Karenina"
You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does.
-Sri Chinmoy
If you closely observe life, you will find, here with every pleasure there is pain...
and with every pain, pleasure. Hence, among all that is happening, if you keep
your eyes fixed only at the brighter side of it, you can always be happy.
-Deep Trivedi
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
-Albert Camus
Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
-Maurice Maeterlinck "Maurice Maeterlinck"
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
-Oscar Wilde
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only satisfactory definition of happiness is wholeness.
-Helen Keller
