You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does.
-Sri Chinmoy
Quotations
Happiness
The difference between love and happiness is that those who talk about love tend to be in love, but those who talk about happiness tend to be not happy.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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 isn’t something that depends on our surroundings… It’s something we make inside ourselves.
-Cornelia "Corrie" Ten Boom
Everyone speaks of it, few know it.
-Marie Jeanne P. Roland
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
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
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"
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
-Jacques Prévert
