If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.
-Alfred Bester
"The Stars My Destination"
Quotations
Happiness
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
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
-Eric Hoffer
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
-Aristotle
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
-Aristotle
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
-Alexandre Dumas
If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
-Jules Renard
"The Journal of Jules Renard"
He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day... needs to reorganize his life.
-George M. Adams
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 secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
