We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Khalil Gibran
Quotations
Happiness
I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.
-Megan McCafferty
"Second Helpings"
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called ‘All The Things That Could Go Wrong’.
-Marianne Williamson
Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings… It’s something we make inside ourselves.
-Cornelia "Corrie" Ten Boom
Let us live happily, we who have no impediments. We shall subsist on joy even as the radiant gods.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada"
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
-Ramana Maharshi
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
But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.
-Danny Wallace
"Yes Man"
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
-Drew Barrymore
