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
Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
-Audrey Niffenegger
"The Time Traveler's Wife"
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
-Gabriel García Márquez
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
-Kin Hubbard
The only satisfactory definition of happiness is wholeness.
-Helen Keller
Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction not from satisfaction of vitals or body.
-Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo"
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
Every day you can inspire others through your sincere concern for humanity’s happiness and progress.
-Sri Chinmoy "Sri Chinmoy"
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
-John Barrymore
