The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
-Karl Marx
Quotations
Happiness
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
-Leo Tolstoy
"Anna Karenina"
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
-Andy Rooney
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
-Gabriel García Márquez
The only satisfactory definition of happiness is wholeness.
-Helen Keller
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.
-William E. "Bill" Vaughan
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"
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
-Drew Barrymore
