If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
-Jules Renard
"The Journal of Jules Renard"
Quotations
Happiness
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
-Oscar Wilde
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
-W. P. Kinsella
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
-Marty Rubin
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
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"
Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
-Epicurus
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"
Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.
-A Spiritual Leader "Paramahansa Yogananda"
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-Benjamin Franklin
