"One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness." ― Gustave Flaubert Topic(s): Happiness Tags: apple, mustn, trees More From Gustave Flaubert "Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom." "I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings." "Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant." More In Happiness "There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating."― Frederick Delius "Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance."― Jane Austen "Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man’s hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them."― Don Marquis