Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
-W. P. Kinsella
Quotations
Happiness
Rain clouds come floating in, not to muddy my days ahead, but to make me calm, happy and hopeful.
-Anonymous "Rajuda"
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.
-Megan McCafferty
"Second Helpings"
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
Every day you can inspire others through your sincere concern for humanity’s happiness and progress.
-Sri Chinmoy "Sri Chinmoy"
If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
-Jules Renard
"The Journal of Jules Renard"
Happiness is only real when shared.
-Jon Krakauer
"Into the Wild"
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
-Henry Ford
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
