The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
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.
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"