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
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
-Albert Camus
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
-Aristotle
Happiness is only real when shared.
-Jon Krakauer
"Into the Wild"
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
-George Bernard Shaw
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
-Jim Rohn
If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.
-Alfred Bester
"The Stars My Destination"
Those with indomitable spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm, that is true happiness.
-A Spiritual Leader "Paramahansa Yogananda"
