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
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
If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.
-Alfred Bester
"The Stars My Destination"
Happy people produce. Bored people consume.
-Stephen Richards
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
-Epictetus
Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
-Epicurus
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
-Kin Hubbard
Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.
-Madonna
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
-Alexandre Dumas
