Famous Quotes

"We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does."

Mary Gordon 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 Mary Gordon

• "It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction."

• "It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction."

• "One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss."

• "I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad."