Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
Quotations
Happiness
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
-Thomas Jefferson
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
-Helen Keller
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Of Human Bondage"
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
-Mary Baker Eddy
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every day you can inspire others through your sincere concern for humanity’s happiness and progress.
-Sri Chinmoy "Sri Chinmoy"
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
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
-Albert Camus
