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
One never knows what joy one might find amongst the unwanted.
-Anonymous
"The movie,Kinky Boots"
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
-Gabriel García Márquez
If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
-Madonna
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-Ernest Hemingway
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
-Marty Rubin
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
You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does.
-Sri Chinmoy
If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.
-Alfred Bester
"The Stars My Destination"
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
-John Barrymore
