Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.
-Madonna
Quotations
Happiness
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
-Oscar Wilde
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called ‘All The Things That Could Go Wrong’.
-Marianne Williamson
Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
-Maurice Maeterlinck "Maurice Maeterlinck"
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
-Leo Tolstoy
"Anna Karenina"
The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.
-Nicholas Sparks
"Dear John"
You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does.
-Sri Chinmoy
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-Benjamin Franklin
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
-Gabriel García Márquez
For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.
-Marilyn Manson
"My Story"
