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"
Quotations
Happiness
The only satisfactory definition of happiness is wholeness.
-Helen Keller
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
-John Lennon
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
-George Washington
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
-Epictetus
Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.
-Dennis Wholey
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
One never knows what joy one might find amongst the unwanted.
-Anonymous
"The movie,Kinky Boots"
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
-Aristotle
