The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
Quotations
Happiness
A mathematical formula for happiness: Reality divided by Expectations. There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations.
-Jodi Picoult
"Nineteen Minutes"
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
-Jim Rohn
Happiness is a late discovery.
-Fadi Dabour
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"
But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.
-Danny Wallace
"Yes Man"
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"
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
-Henry Ford
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.
-Megan McCafferty
"Second Helpings"
