We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Khalil Gibran
Quotations
Happiness
Happy are those who mourn; God will comfort them.
-Jesus Christ
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
-John Lennon
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
-Ray Bradbury
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be
-Marcel Pagnol
For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.
-Marilyn Manson
"My Story"
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
-Gabriel García Márquez
Why should we build our happiness on the opinions of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
"The Social Contract and Discourses"
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
Let us live happily, we who have no impediments. We shall subsist on joy even as the radiant gods.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada"
