Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
-Audrey Niffenegger
"The Time Traveler's Wife"
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings… It’s something we make inside ourselves.
-Cornelia "Corrie" Ten Boom
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
With a genuine keenness or readiness to serve others, one can attain happiness in any group or community, and the eagerness to serve others will endow you with the power and skill necessary for the required service. Nowadays, we tend to regard it as derogatory to serve, but there is great worth in service.
-Sathya Sai Baba "Sri Sathya Sai Baba"
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
-George Washington
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called ‘All The Things That Could Go Wrong’.
-Marianne Williamson
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt and has a clear conscience?
-Adam Smith
