The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
-William Saroyan
"My Heart's in the Highlands"
Quotations
Happiness
With a genuine keenness or readiness to serve others, one can attain happiness in any group or community, and the eagerness to serve others will endow you with the power and skill necessary for the required service. Nowadays, we tend to regard it as derogatory to serve, but there is great worth in service.
-Sathya Sai Baba "Sri Sathya Sai Baba"
I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.
-Megan McCafferty
"Second Helpings"
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
-John Dewey
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"
Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.
-Madonna
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
-Aristotle
Being happy is a great science. If you are not happy, do not be confused. Happiness is hard to achieve.
-Peter Deunov
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
-Oscar Wilde
Nothing in the world can make you happy; everything in the world can encourage you to be happy.
-Robert Holden
"Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good FAST"
