Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
-W. P. Kinsella
Quotations
Happiness
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be
-Marcel Pagnol
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
-Scriptures "Amanda Bradley"
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction, not from the vital’s or body’s satisfaction.
-Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo"
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
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
-Marty Rubin
Happiness is only real when shared.
-Jon Krakauer
"Into the Wild"
One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
