If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.
-Alfred Bester
"The Stars My Destination"
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
-Aristotle
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
-Karl Marx
It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.
-Dale Carnegie
"How to Win Friends and Influence People"
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
-John Dewey
No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.
-Paulo Coelho
"The Zahir"
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
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"
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
-Bertrand Russell
