Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
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 only real when shared.
-Jon Krakauer
"Into the Wild"
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
-Robert Frost
If you closely observe life, you will find, here with every pleasure there is pain...
and with every pain, pleasure. Hence, among all that is happening, if you keep
your eyes fixed only at the brighter side of it, you can always be happy.
-Deep Trivedi
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
-John Dewey
Let us live happily, we who have no impediments. We shall subsist on joy even as the radiant gods.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada"
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
-Bertrand Russell
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
-John Barrymore
Being happy is a great science. If you are not happy, do not be confused. Happiness is hard to achieve.
-Peter Deunov
