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
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
-Andy Rooney
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
-John Barrymore
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
-Epicurus
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
-George Bernard Shaw
You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.
-Melisa De La Cruz
"The Van Alen Legacy"
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
-Thomas Jefferson
