Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Happiness
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"
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
-Alexandre Dumas
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.
-William E. "Bill" Vaughan
We know, how to build a beautiful house, but we don’t know how to live within it happily.
-J. Krishnamurti
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
-Aristotle
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
-Thomas Jefferson
