Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
-John Barrymore
Quotations
Happiness
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be
-Marcel Pagnol
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
-Alexandre Dumas
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
-Epicurus
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"
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
-George Bernard Shaw
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.
-Danny Wallace
"Yes Man"
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
-Mahatma Gandhi
