It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
-W. Somerset Maugham
Quotations
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Do not take this material world so seriously because it is always changing. Something terrible that you take so seriously today is going to change tomorrow.
-A Spiritual Leader
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
Music is very personal. It means different things to different people. To you it means belonging. To me it means knowing I exist.
-Simon Cheshire
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
-Gautama Buddha
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
-Nelson Mandela
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-Oscar Wilde
