Quotations
Happiness
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
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
- Marcus Aurelius
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
- Khalil Gibran
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
- Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.
- A Spiritual Leader
Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction not from satisfaction of vitals or body.
- Sri Aurobindo
Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
- Maurice Maeterlinck
You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does.
- Sri Chinmoy
Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
- Karen Maezen Miller
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