The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
Quotations
Happiness
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
-Aristotle
Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.
-Dennis Wholey
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds and six, result misery.
-Charles Dickens
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
-Drew Barrymore
If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.
-Robert Brault
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
-Karl Marx
We know, how to build a beautiful house, but we don’t know how to live within it happily.
-J. Krishnamurti
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
