Marie Corelli - Happiness Quotes

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Pleasure for others is the only pleasure possible to me. I assure you I'm quite selfish! — I'm greedy for the happiness of those I love — and if they can't or won't be happy I'm perfectly miserable.

Marie Corelli

Perfect happiness is the soul's acceptance of a sense of joy without question.

Marie Corelli

No one is contented is this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.

Marie Corelli

What is heaven? A state of perfect happiness. What is happiness? The immortal union of two souls in one, creatures of God's eternal light, partaking of each other's thoughts, bestowing upon each other the renewal of joy, and creating loveliness in form and action by their mutual sympathy and tenderness.

Marie Corelli

Work is happiness. No one can take my work from me and therefore no one can take my happiness from me.

Marie Corelli

Education! Is it education to teach the young that their chances of happiness depend on being richer than their neighbors? Yet that is what it all tends to. Get on! — be successful!

Marie Corelli