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
If you think happiness is a rare bird, you won't see much of it.
-Marty Rubin
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
-Henry Ford
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
-Epictetus
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.
-Madonna
If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
-Jules Renard
"The Journal of Jules Renard"
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
-Bertrand Russell
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
