Quotations
Happiness
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
- Francis Bacon
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
- George Bernard Shaw
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
- Haruki Murakami
You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.
- Melisa De La Cruz
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
- André Maurois
Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings… It’s something we make inside ourselves.
- Cornelia "Corrie" Ten Boom
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.
- Paulo Coelho
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
- Drew Barrymore
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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