Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.
-Madonna
Quotations
Happiness
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"
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"
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds and six, result misery.
-Charles Dickens
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
-Helen Keller
But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.
-Danny Wallace
"Yes Man"
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
-Francis Bacon
Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction, not from the vital’s or body’s satisfaction.
-Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo"
If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
-Madonna
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
