Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
Quotations
Happiness
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The difference between love and happiness is that those who talk about love tend to be in love, but those who talk about happiness tend to be not happy.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
-Marty Rubin
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
-Alexandre Dumas
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.
-William E. "Bill" Vaughan
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Khalil Gibran
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-Ernest Hemingway
Being happy is a great science. If you are not happy, do not be confused. Happiness is hard to achieve.
-Peter Deunov
