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"
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
Let us live happily, we who have no impediments. We shall subsist on joy even as the radiant gods.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada"
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.
-Robert Brault
Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings… It’s something we make inside ourselves.
-Cornelia "Corrie" Ten Boom
What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt and has a clear conscience?
-Adam Smith
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why should we build our happiness on the opinions of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
"The Social Contract and Discourses"
