If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.
-Alfred Bester
"The Stars My Destination"
Quotations
Happiness
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
-Bertrand Russell
The difference between love and happiness is that those who talk about love tend to be in love, but those who talk about happiness tend to be not happy.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Happiness is not a goal... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
The only satisfactory definition of happiness is wholeness.
-Helen Keller
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
-Leo Tolstoy
"Anna Karenina"
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
-W. P. Kinsella
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
-John Barrymore
