No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
-Colette
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
-Robert Frost
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
-Ramana Maharshi
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
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"
Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.
-A Spiritual Leader "Paramahansa Yogananda"
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
-Drew Barrymore
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
-W. P. Kinsella
If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.
-Alfred Bester
"The Stars My Destination"
