The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
Quotations
Happiness
If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.
-Alfred Bester
"The Stars My Destination"
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-Benjamin Franklin
If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
-Madonna
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
-Thomas Jefferson
Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don’t have to do it, but its here if you choose to come back to it.
-Ilona Andrews
"Magic Bleeds"
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with Spring.
-George Santayana "George Santayana"
To be joyous in life, a few bites to eat in peace, pouring rains or cool breeze are
sufficient... Whereas for reasons to be sad, you can write thousands of books on
it.
-Deep Trivedi
Why should we build our happiness on the opinions of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
"The Social Contract and Discourses"
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
-Kin Hubbard
