Albert Schweitzer

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."

--Albert Schweitzer

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George Edward Woodberry

"To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment."

--George Edward Woodberry

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Helen Merrell Lynd

"Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values."

--Helen Merrell Lynd

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John Buchan

"There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness."

--John Buchan

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Alfred Korzybski

"There are two ways to slice easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking."

--Alfred Korzybski

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Sir John Lubbock

"I can but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the duty of happiness as well as the happiness of duty; for we ought to be as bright and genial as we can, if only because to be cheerful ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others."

--Sir John Lubbock

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Victor Frankl

"Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed or spoiled to the degree to which it is made an end in itself."

--Victor Frankl

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James M. Barrie

"It is not in doing what you like, but liking what you do that is the secret of happiness."

--James M. Barrie

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Rachel Carson

"If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of children, I would ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing anecdote against the boredom and disenchantment of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength."

--Rachel Carson

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A.J. Cronin

"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow; it only saps today of its strength."

--A.J. Cronin

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Mahatma Gandhi

"There is more to life than increasing its speed."

--Mahatma Gandhi

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Frank Tibolt

"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action."

--Frank Tibolt

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James Thurber

"All men should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why."

--James Thurber

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Benjamin Franklin

"Some people die at twenty-five and aren’t buried until they are seventy-five."

--Benjamin Franklin

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Reggie Leach

"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire."

--Reggie Leach

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General Douglas MacArthur

"There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity."

--General Douglas MacArthur
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George Bernard Shaw

"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not."

--George Bernard Shaw
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Peter McWilliams

"If you don’t get satisfaction from doing it on a small scale, you won’t get satisfaction doing it on a global scale. Nothing, multiplied by six billion, is still nothing."

--Peter McWilliams
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Jean Kerr

"A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich man who is unhappy because the poor man has hope. He thinks money would help."

--Jean Kerr
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De Witt Clinton

"Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is a vanity, and power is a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and infinite in duration."

--De Witt Clinton
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Bob Dylan

"What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."

--Bob Dylan
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Dr. Smiley Blanton

"The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capabilities to their greatest extent."

--Dr. Smiley Blanton
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John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

"I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure."

--John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
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Noel Coward

"Work is much more fun than fun."

--Noel Coward
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose--a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."

--Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving in."

--Oliver Wendell Holmes
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William Cowper

"The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."

--William Cowper
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William Shakespeare

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."

--William Shakespeare
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Eleanor Roosevelt

"When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die."

--Eleanor Roosevelt
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Charles Kingsley

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about."

--Charles Kingsley
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