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
Quotations
Happiness
But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.
-Danny Wallace
"Yes Man"
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
-Maurice Maeterlinck "Maurice Maeterlinck"
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
-Mary Baker Eddy
Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart.
-Amit Ray
"Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style"
I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.
-Sebastian Horsley
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
If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
-Madonna
Happiness is only real when shared.
-Jon Krakauer
"Into the Wild"
