Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
Quotations
Happiness
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
-Colette
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
-Epictetus
What is the definition of joy? When you get an opportunity to do what you really
want to, the feeling that you experience then, is called "Joy".
-Deep Trivedi
Happy people produce. Bored people consume.
-Stephen Richards
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
-Jacques Prévert
Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.
-Zaroaster "Zaroaster"
Happy is the unity of the Sangha. Happy is the discipline of the united ones.
-Dhammapada " Dhammapada 194"
Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
-Maurice Maeterlinck "Maurice Maeterlinck"
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Of Human Bondage"
