Famous Quotes

"There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true."

Francois Fenelon 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 Francois Fenelon

• "Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half."

• "All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers."

• "A good historian is timeless although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect."

• "Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half."

• "All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers."