Those with indomitable spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm, that is true happiness.
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
-Francis Bacon
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
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with Spring.
Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
-Karen Maezen Miller
"Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life"
What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt and has a clear conscience?
-Adam Smith
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
-Madonna
That happiness which comes after misery is all the more enjoyable; it is to one scorched in the sun that the shade of the tree gives exceptional relief.
