There are those who give with joy and that joy is their reward.
-Khalil Gibran
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness is not the absence of problems. It’s the ability to deal with them.
-Steve Maraboli
"Life, the Truth, and Being Free"
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
-Henry Ford
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.
-Megan McCafferty
"Second Helpings"
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"
Strength is happiness. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness.
-Daisaku Ikeda "Daisaku Ikeda"
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
-Aristotle
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"
