Quotations
Happiness
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
- Eric Hoffer
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
- Haruki Murakami
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
- George Bernard Shaw
Happy people produce. Bored people consume.
- Stephen Richards
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
- Jacques Prévert
Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
- Maurice Maeterlinck
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
- Colette
Lao Tan said, “I was letting my mind wander in the beginning of things.”
“What does this mean?” asked Confucius. Lao Tan said, “It means to attain Perfect Beauty and wander in Perfect Happiness. He who attains Perfect Beauty and wanders in Perfect Happiness may be called the Perfect Man.”
- Scriptures
Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.
- William J. Bennett
A mathematical formula for happiness: Reality divided by Expectations. There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations.
- Jodi Picoult
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