The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
-Eric Hoffer
Quotations
Happiness
Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
Happiness is not a goal... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.
-A Spiritual Leader "Paramahansa Yogananda"
A mathematical formula for happiness: Reality divided by Expectations. There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations.
-Jodi Picoult
"Nineteen Minutes"
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
-John Dewey
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"
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
-Henry Ford
One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
