They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
-Tom Bodett
Quotations
Happiness
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
-Bertrand Russell
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-Benjamin Franklin
He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day... needs to reorganize his life.
-George M. Adams
Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
-Maurice Maeterlinck "Maurice Maeterlinck"
If you closely observe life, you will find, here with every pleasure there is pain...
and with every pain, pleasure. Hence, among all that is happening, if you keep
your eyes fixed only at the brighter side of it, you can always be happy.
-Deep Trivedi
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"
Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.
-Alex Flinn
"The movie, Beastly"
If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.
-Alfred Bester
"The Stars My Destination"
