To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
-John Dewey
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
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
He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day... needs to reorganize his life.
-George M. Adams
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 is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.
-William J. Bennett
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
-Bertrand Russell
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
-Thomas Jefferson
