There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
-Francis Bacon
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness is not a goal... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Hiding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.
-Jenny O'connell
"The Book of Luke"
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
-George Bernard Shaw
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.
-Madonna
Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.
-Alex Flinn
"The movie, Beastly"
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with Spring.
-George Santayana "George Santayana"
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"
