The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
-Aristotle
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
-Kin Hubbard
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
-Robert Frost
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds and six, result misery.
-Charles Dickens
Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.
-William J. Bennett
Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction, not from the vital’s or body’s satisfaction.
-Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo"
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
-Alexandre Dumas
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
-William Saroyan
"My Heart's in the Highlands"
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
