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Quotes of the Day for 11 February 2005 - Happiness

My comments on high school in yesterday's introduction struck a chord. While reading and responding to this, I found myself wondering why I was so unhappy back then, as there were many features of those years that, objectively, should have made me very happy. It seems that a lot of notable authors have given thought to the question, today's issue could have been twice as long and I wouldn't have run out of profound quotes.

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

Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
     - Alice Meynell, 1847 - 1922

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
     - Ayn Rand, 1905 - 1982

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
     - Benjamin Disraeli, 1804 - 1881

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
     - Bertrand Russell, 1872 - 1970

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.
     - Charles Caleb Colton, 1780 - 1832

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