We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Khalil Gibran
Quotations
Happiness
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
-Aristotle
Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
-Karen Maezen Miller
"Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life"
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"
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"
But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.
-Danny Wallace
"Yes Man"
Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
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.
Everyone speaks of it, few know it.
-Marie Jeanne P. Roland
