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"
Quotations
Happiness
The only satisfactory definition of happiness is wholeness.
-Helen Keller
What is the definition of happiness? The feeling that arises when you are acting
according to your nature, is called "Happiness".
-Deep Trivedi
But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.
-Danny Wallace
"Yes Man"
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am so happy in your happiness. To you, happiness is a form of freedom, and of all the people I know you should be free.
-Khalil Gibran
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
-John Dewey
There are those who give with joy and that joy is their reward.
-Khalil Gibran
