The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
-William Saroyan
"My Heart's in the Highlands"
Quotations
Happiness
Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
-Maurice Maeterlinck "Maurice Maeterlinck"
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
-Aristotle
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
-Eric Hoffer
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
-George Washington
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-Ernest Hemingway
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
-Henry Ford
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
-Kin Hubbard
