If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
-Madonna
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
-Aristotle
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"
Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart.
-Amit Ray
"Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style"
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
Holiness leads to wholeness and wholeness leads to happiness.
-Leslie Vernick
"Lord, I Just Want to Be Happy"
Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.
-Dennis Wholey
I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.
-Sebastian Horsley
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
