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
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with Spring.
-George Santayana "George Santayana"
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
-Leo Tolstoy
"Anna Karenina"
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
-Bertrand Russell
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
There are those who give with joy and that joy is their reward.
-Khalil Gibran
Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings… It’s something we make inside ourselves.
-Cornelia "Corrie" Ten Boom
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
-John Barrymore
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
-Aristotle
