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
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be
-Marcel Pagnol
But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.
-Danny Wallace
"Yes Man"
The only satisfactory definition of happiness is wholeness.
-Helen Keller
Hiding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.
-Jenny O'connell
"The Book of Luke"
Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction, not from the vital’s or body’s satisfaction.
-Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo"
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
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
-Henry Ford
Don't put off happiness you can have today. Tomorrow is a hope, not a promise.
-Debra Anastasia
Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
