Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
-Alexandre Dumas
Quotations
Happiness
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-Ernest Hemingway
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
-John Barrymore
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
-Ramana Maharshi
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
-Henry Ford
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
-Mary Baker Eddy
If you closely observe life, you will find, here with every pleasure there is pain...
and with every pain, pleasure. Hence, among all that is happening, if you keep
your eyes fixed only at the brighter side of it, you can always be happy.
-Deep Trivedi
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
-Aristotle
