Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
-W. P. Kinsella
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
-Mary Baker Eddy
Happy people produce. Bored people consume.
-Stephen Richards
Happy are those who mourn; God will comfort them.
-Jesus Christ
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
-Robert Frost
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
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
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
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
-Thomas Jefferson
