Happiness
Quotes - Don't aim at Success
“Don't
aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are
going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must
ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal
dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's
surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same
holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you
to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out
to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the
long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you
had forgotten to think about it”
―
Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
“Do
not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best
time to be happy is always now.”
―
Roy T. Bennett
“I'm
happy. Which often looks like crazy.”
―
David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly
“I
don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become
what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
―
Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
“Let
no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living
expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes,
kindness in your smile.”
―
Mother Teresa
“So
we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier
man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed
securely on shore and merely existed?”
―
Hunter S. Thompson
“Happiness
is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.”
―
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“I
think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million
times, but never once into it.”
―
Jonathan Safran Foer
“I'd
far rather be happy than right any day.”
―
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“The
grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to
love, and something to hope for.”
―
George Washington Burnap, The Sphere and Duties of Woman: A Course of Lectures
“It
was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning
light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”
― F.
Scott Fitzgerald
“Actual
happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations
for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as
instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight
against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation,
or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”
―
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“And
hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They
danced by the light of the moon.”
―
Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat
“Happiness
quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”
―
Charlotte Bronte
“True
happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future,
not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with
what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The
greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is
content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”
―
Seneca
“I
felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a
roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
―
Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
“One
of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.”
―
Rita Mae Brown
“The
more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great
things into your life.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“Happiness
depends upon ourselves.”
―
Aristotle
“I
know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know
it's not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget.
Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you
of him.”
―
Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
