Famous Quotes

"What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told."

Andre Gide 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 Andre Gide

• "It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor."

• "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced."

• "Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."

• "Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor."

• "There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome."