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
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-Ernest Hemingway
Everyone speaks of it, few know it.
-Marie Jeanne P. Roland
Let us live happily, we who have no impediments. We shall subsist on joy even as the radiant gods.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada"
The only satisfactory definition of happiness is wholeness.
-Helen Keller
Every day you can inspire others through your sincere concern for humanity’s happiness and progress.
-Sri Chinmoy "Sri Chinmoy"
Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
-Epicurus
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
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
-Jacques Prévert
I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.
-Megan McCafferty
"Second Helpings"
