Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.
-William J. Bennett
Quotations
Happiness
I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.
-Megan McCafferty
"Second Helpings"
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
-Colette
The only satisfactory definition of happiness is wholeness.
-Helen Keller
But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.
-Danny Wallace
"Yes Man"
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
-Francis Bacon
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.
-Zaroaster "Zaroaster"
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller
