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"
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Every day you can inspire others through your sincere concern for humanity’s happiness and progress.
-Sri Chinmoy "Sri Chinmoy"
Everyone speaks of it, few know it.
-Marie Jeanne P. Roland
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
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
-William Saroyan
"My Heart's in the Highlands"
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
I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.
-Sebastian Horsley
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
-Albert Camus
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-Benjamin Franklin
