Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.
-William J. Bennett
Quotations
Happiness
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be
-Marcel Pagnol
But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.
-Danny Wallace
"Yes Man"
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
Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don’t have to do it, but its here if you choose to come back to it.
-Ilona Andrews
"Magic Bleeds"
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
-Ramana Maharshi
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
-Colette
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds and six, result misery.
-Charles Dickens
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
There are those who give with joy and that joy is their reward.
-Khalil Gibran
