Famous Quotes

"Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it."

Gustave Flaubert 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 Gustave Flaubert

• "Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."

• "I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."

• "Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."

• "Of all lies, art is the least untrue."

• "The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe."