Famous Quotes

"Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided."

Alphonse Karr on Happiness

More quotes about Happiness

• "Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."

  John Barrymore on Happiness

• "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

  Dalai Lama on Happiness

• "Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."

  Abraham Lincoln on Happiness

• "I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition."

  Martha Washington on Happiness

• "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Happiness

More quotes by Alphonse Karr

• "The more things change, the more they are the same."

• "Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else."

• "Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else."

• "I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked."

• "Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end."