If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
-Jules Renard
"The Journal of Jules Renard"
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.
-William J. Bennett
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
Every day you can inspire others through your sincere concern for humanity’s happiness and progress.
-Sri Chinmoy "Sri Chinmoy"
What is the definition of joy? When you get an opportunity to do what you really
want to, the feeling that you experience then, is called "Joy".
-Deep Trivedi
Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
-Karen Maezen Miller
"Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life"
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
-Helen Keller
Happiness is only real when shared.
-Jon Krakauer
"Into the Wild"
Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.
-Alex Flinn
"The movie, Beastly"
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called ‘All The Things That Could Go Wrong’.
-Marianne Williamson
