Quotations
Happiness
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
- W. Somerset Maugham
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
One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.
- Leo Tolstoy
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
- W. P. Kinsella
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 is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
- Karen Maezen Miller
The only satisfactory definition of happiness is wholeness.
- Helen Keller
Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings… It’s something we make inside ourselves.
- Cornelia "Corrie" Ten Boom
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
- Alan Bennett
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