The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
-Bertrand Russell
Quotations
Happiness
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
-Andy Rooney
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
I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.
-Megan McCafferty
"Second Helpings"
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.
-Madonna
We know, how to build a beautiful house, but we don’t know how to live within it happily.
-J. Krishnamurti
Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.
-Zaroaster "Zaroaster"
Happiness is only real when shared.
-Jon Krakauer
"Into the Wild"
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
-Marty Rubin
