Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
-W. P. Kinsella
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings… It’s something we make inside ourselves.
-Cornelia "Corrie" Ten Boom
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
-Oscar Wilde
It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.
-Dale Carnegie
"How to Win Friends and Influence People"
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
-Epictetus
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
-Leo Tolstoy
"Anna Karenina"
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-Benjamin Franklin
Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.
-Alex Flinn
"The movie, Beastly"
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
-Eric Hoffer
