No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
-Colette
Quotations
Happiness
Happy are those who work for peace: God will call them his children.
-Jesus Christ
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
-Kin Hubbard
If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.
-Alfred Bester
"The Stars My Destination"
Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
-Karen Maezen Miller
"Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life"
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"
I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.
-Megan McCafferty
"Second Helpings"
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
-Andy Rooney
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.
-Zaroaster "Zaroaster"
