The
secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes,
but in liking what one does.
-- Sir James M.
Barrie
1860-1937, British
Playwright
Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic
response.
-- Mildred Barthel
We
find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing
what we are. Men do not really live for honors or
for pay; their gladness is not the taking and
holding, but in doing, the striving, the building,
the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be
taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do
it; fun to have things but more to make them. The
happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for
the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.
-- R.J. Baughan
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction
after full honest effort. No one can possibly be
satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in
some paramount affairs he failed to take up the
challenge of life.
-- Arnold Bennett
1867-1931, British
Novelist
