It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Of Human Bondage"
Quotations
Happiness
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
-Helen Keller
What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt and has a clear conscience?
-Adam Smith
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
-Albert Camus
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Khalil Gibran
We know, how to build a beautiful house, but we don’t know how to live within it happily.
-J. Krishnamurti
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
-Marty Rubin
Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.
-Alex Flinn
"The movie, Beastly"
Nothing in the world can make you happy; everything in the world can encourage you to be happy.
-Robert Holden
"Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good FAST"
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
-Ray Bradbury
