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Quotes of the Day for 30 December 2003 - Happiness

Today we have yet another theme from the backlog of requests, this one on Happiness. It was a significant, if enjoyable, task to narrow the selection down to what would fit.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
     - Agnes Repplier, 1855 - 1950

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
     - Albert Camus, 1913 - 1960

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
     - Freya Stark

All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
     - George Gordon Noel Byron, 1788 - 1824

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
     - Henri Matisse, 1869 - 1954

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
     - Marcus Aurelius, 121 - 180

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
     - Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804 - 1864

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