I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.
-Megan McCafferty
"Second Helpings"
Quotations
Happiness
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings… It’s something we make inside ourselves.
-Cornelia "Corrie" Ten Boom
If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
-Madonna
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds and six, result misery.
-Charles Dickens
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
-Albert Schweitzer
Happy is the unity of the Sangha. Happy is the discipline of the united ones.
-Dhammapada " Dhammapada 194"
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don’t have to do it, but its here if you choose to come back to it.
-Ilona Andrews
"Magic Bleeds"
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
