Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
Quotations
Happiness
I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.
-Sebastian Horsley
One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
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
It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.
-Dale Carnegie
"How to Win Friends and Influence People"
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
-Gabriel García Márquez
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
-Albert Schweitzer
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller
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"
If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.
-Robert Brault
