Quotes About Discovery

Happiness isn't a destination; its a journey.

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.

Happiness is discovering the prune juice your doctor ordered you to drink has fermented.

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.

It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.

What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.

One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days.

Happiness is being stuck in an elevator and discovering the ravishing blonde with you is a liquor salesman with a case of samples.

One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.

Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.

I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.

Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

Read at whim! Read at whim!

I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.

I have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness.

So this is happiness, that journeyman.

I read a book not to find its meaning, but to find my happiness.