No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
-Colette
Quotations
Happiness
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
-John Lennon
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
-Tom Bodett
Happy people produce. Bored people consume.
-Stephen Richards
I am so happy in your happiness. To you, happiness is a form of freedom, and of all the people I know you should be free.
-Khalil Gibran
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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"
I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.
-Sebastian Horsley
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
-Aristotle
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
-William Saroyan
"My Heart's in the Highlands"
