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"
Quotations
Happiness
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
-Tom Bodett
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
-Alexandre Dumas
Happy people produce. Bored people consume.
-Stephen Richards
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
-John Dewey
The only satisfactory definition of happiness is wholeness.
-Helen Keller
Rain clouds come floating in, not to muddy my days ahead, but to make me calm, happy and hopeful.
-Anonymous "Rajuda"
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
-Albert Schweitzer
Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
-Epicurus
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
-Marty Rubin
