Happiness is not the absence of problems. It’s the ability to deal with them.
-Steve Maraboli
"Life, the Truth, and Being Free"
Quotations
Happiness
Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
-Audrey Niffenegger
"The Time Traveler's Wife"
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
-Alexandre Dumas
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
-Marty Rubin
The only satisfactory definition of happiness is wholeness.
-Helen Keller
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
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
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
-Epictetus
