Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
-Alexandre Dumas
Quotations
Happiness
I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.
-Sebastian Horsley
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
Being happy is a great science. If you are not happy, do not be confused. Happiness is hard to achieve.
-Peter Deunov
If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
-Madonna
If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
-Jules Renard
"The Journal of Jules Renard"
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
-Thomas Jefferson
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Khalil Gibran
Hiding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.
-Jenny O'connell
"The Book of Luke"
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
-Henry Ford
