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
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
-Bertrand Russell
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
-Mahatma Gandhi
If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.
-Alfred Bester
"The Stars My Destination"
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
-William Saroyan
"My Heart's in the Highlands"
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
-Leo Tolstoy
"Anna Karenina"
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
-Aristotle
Happiness is a late discovery.
-Fadi Dabour
Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
-Karen Maezen Miller
"Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life"
