The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Khalil Gibran
If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.
-Alfred Bester
"The Stars My Destination"
Rain clouds come floating in, not to muddy my days ahead, but to make me calm, happy and hopeful.
-Anonymous "Rajuda"
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
-Thomas Jefferson
Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.
-Zaroaster "Zaroaster"
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
