Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Happiness
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
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"
Every day you can inspire others through your sincere concern for humanity’s happiness and progress.
-Sri Chinmoy "Sri Chinmoy"
I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.
-Megan McCafferty
"Second Helpings"
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds and six, result misery.
-Charles Dickens
Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction not from satisfaction of vitals or body.
-Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo"
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
-John Barrymore
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
Happiness is only real when shared.
-Jon Krakauer
"Into the Wild"
