Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
-Alexandre Dumas
Quotations
Happiness
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
-W. P. Kinsella
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
-Aristotle
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
-Andy Rooney
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 depends upon ourselves.
-Aristotle
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
-Gerard Way
Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
-Maurice Maeterlinck "Maurice Maeterlinck"
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
-John Dewey
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
-Helen Keller
