To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
-John Dewey
Quotations
Happiness
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
-Henry Ford
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
The difference between love and happiness is that those who talk about love tend to be in love, but those who talk about happiness tend to be not happy.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Hiding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.
-Jenny O'connell
"The Book of Luke"
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
-Steven Kloves
"The movie, “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds and six, result misery.
-Charles Dickens
I am so happy in your happiness. To you, happiness is a form of freedom, and of all the people I know you should be free.
-Khalil Gibran
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"
