Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings… It’s something we make inside ourselves.
-Cornelia "Corrie" Ten Boom
Quotations
Happiness
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
-William Saroyan
"My Heart's in the Highlands"
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
-Bertrand Russell
You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does.
-Sri Chinmoy
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
-W. P. Kinsella
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
-Alexandre Dumas
Those with indomitable spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm, that is true happiness.
-A Spiritual Leader "Paramahansa Yogananda"
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
