Famous Quotes
"It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive."
More quotes about Happiness
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"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."
John Barrymore on Happiness -
"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
Dalai Lama on Happiness -
"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Abraham Lincoln on Happiness -
"I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition."
Martha Washington on Happiness -
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
Mahatma Gandhi on Happiness
More quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
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"Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."
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"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."
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"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
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"The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger."
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"We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person."