Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.
-Madonna
Quotations
Happiness
Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
-Audrey Niffenegger
"The Time Traveler's Wife"
Why should we build our happiness on the opinions of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
"The Social Contract and Discourses"
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with Spring.
-George Santayana "George Santayana"
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
-Colette
Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.
-Alex Flinn
"The movie, Beastly"
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
What is the definition of joy? When you get an opportunity to do what you really
want to, the feeling that you experience then, is called "Joy".
-Deep Trivedi
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
One never knows what joy one might find amongst the unwanted.
-Anonymous
"The movie,Kinky Boots"
