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
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are those who give with joy and that joy is their reward.
-Khalil Gibran
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
The only satisfactory definition of happiness is wholeness.
-Helen Keller
Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don’t have to do it, but its here if you choose to come back to it.
-Ilona Andrews
"Magic Bleeds"
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
-Helen Keller
