We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Khalil Gibran
Quotations
Happiness
But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.
-Danny Wallace
"Yes Man"
With a genuine keenness or readiness to serve others, one can attain happiness in any group or community, and the eagerness to serve others will endow you with the power and skill necessary for the required service. Nowadays, we tend to regard it as derogatory to serve, but there is great worth in service.
-Sathya Sai Baba "Sri Sathya Sai Baba"
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
-Henry Ford
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"
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
-W. P. Kinsella
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
-Marty Rubin
Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.
-Alex Flinn
"The movie, Beastly"
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
-Albert Schweitzer
