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 is not the absence of problems. It’s the ability to deal with them.
-Steve Maraboli
"Life, the Truth, and Being Free"
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"
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
-Oscar Wilde
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction not from satisfaction of vitals or body.
-Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo"
Lao Tan said, “I was letting my mind wander in the beginning of things.”
“What does this mean?” asked Confucius. Lao Tan said, “It means to attain Perfect Beauty and wander in Perfect Happiness. He who attains Perfect Beauty and wanders in Perfect Happiness may be called the Perfect Man.”
-Scriptures "Chuang Tzu 21"
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
-George Bernard Shaw
A mathematical formula for happiness: Reality divided by Expectations. There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations.
-Jodi Picoult
"Nineteen Minutes"
