Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.
-William J. Bennett
Quotations
Happiness
Let us live happily, we who have no impediments. We shall subsist on joy even as the radiant gods.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada"
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
-Madonna
One never knows what joy one might find amongst the unwanted.
-Anonymous
"The movie,Kinky Boots"
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
-Karl Marx
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
-Gerard Way
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"
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
