Orison Swett Marden Quote

Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. They think it comes from doing something on a big scale, from a big fortune, or from some great achievement, when, in fact, it is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.

He Can who Thinks He Can: And Other Papers on Success in Life (ed. Prabhat Prakashan, 1935)