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"
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"
Happy are those who mourn; God will comfort them.
-Jesus Christ
Hiding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.
-Jenny O'connell
"The Book of Luke"
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
-Karl Marx
Happiness is not the absence of problems. It’s the ability to deal with them.
-Steve Maraboli
"Life, the Truth, and Being Free"
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
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
-John Barrymore
Happy people produce. Bored people consume.
-Stephen Richards
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
-Marty Rubin