The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
-George Washington
Happy is the unity of the Sangha. Happy is the discipline of the united ones.
-Dhammapada " Dhammapada 194"
We know, how to build a beautiful house, but we don’t know how to live within it happily.
-J. Krishnamurti
One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
-Madonna
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
-George Bernard Shaw
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"
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds and six, result misery.
-Charles Dickens
