Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Happiness
Let us live happily, we who have no impediments. We shall subsist on joy even as the radiant gods.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada"
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
-Aristotle
If you closely observe life, you will find, here with every pleasure there is pain...
and with every pain, pleasure. Hence, among all that is happening, if you keep
your eyes fixed only at the brighter side of it, you can always be happy.
-Deep Trivedi
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
-Marty Rubin
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.
-Alfred Bester
"The Stars My Destination"
A mathematical formula for happiness: Reality divided by Expectations. There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations.
-Jodi Picoult
"Nineteen Minutes"
You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does.
-Sri Chinmoy
Happiness is not a goal... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
