Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
Quotations
Happiness
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
-Colette
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
One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
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"
Holiness leads to wholeness and wholeness leads to happiness.
-Leslie Vernick
"Lord, I Just Want to Be Happy"
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
Those with indomitable spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm, that is true happiness.
-A Spiritual Leader "Paramahansa Yogananda"
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Khalil Gibran
