No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
-Colette
Quotations
Happiness
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
-Bertrand Russell
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
-Epictetus
What is the definition of joy? When you get an opportunity to do what you really
want to, the feeling that you experience then, is called "Joy".
-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"
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
-Steven Kloves
"The movie, “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be
-Marcel Pagnol
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"
If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
-Madonna
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
