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
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Of Human Bondage"
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
-Epictetus
If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
-Jules Renard
"The Journal of Jules Renard"
Don't put off happiness you can have today. Tomorrow is a hope, not a promise.
-Debra Anastasia
Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
-Karen Maezen Miller
"Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life"
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
Happy is the unity of the Sangha. Happy is the discipline of the united ones.
-Dhammapada " Dhammapada 194"
That happiness which comes after misery is all the more enjoyable; it is to one scorched in the sun that the shade of the tree gives exceptional relief.
-Kalidas "Kalidas"
Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.
-Madonna
