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
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
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
-Epictetus
Lao Tan said, “I was letting my mind wander in the beginning of things.”
“What does this mean?” asked Confucius. Lao Tan said, “It means to attain Perfect Beauty and wander in Perfect Happiness. He who attains Perfect Beauty and wanders in Perfect Happiness may be called the Perfect Man.”
-Scriptures "Chuang Tzu 21"
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
That happiness which comes after misery is all the more enjoyable; it is to one scorched in the sun that the shade of the tree gives exceptional relief.
-Kalidas "Kalidas"
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
-Gabriel García Márquez
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
-John Barrymore
You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does.
-Sri Chinmoy
