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
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"
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
-Kin Hubbard
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
-Albert Camus
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
-Epictetus
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"
If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.
-Robert Brault
I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.
-Megan McCafferty
"Second Helpings"
Those with indomitable spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm, that is true happiness.
-A Spiritual Leader "Paramahansa Yogananda"
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
-Henry Ford
