We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Khalil Gibran
Quotations
Happiness
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
-Tom Bodett
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
-Kin Hubbard
If you closely observe life, you will find, here with every pleasure there is pain...
and with every pain, pleasure. Hence, among all that is happening, if you keep
your eyes fixed only at the brighter side of it, you can always be happy.
-Deep Trivedi
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
What is the definition of happiness? The feeling that arises when you are acting
according to your nature, is called "Happiness".
-Deep Trivedi
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.
-Marilyn Manson
"My Story"
