No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
-Colette
Quotations
Happiness
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
-George Bernard Shaw
What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt and has a clear conscience?
-Adam Smith
I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.
-Megan McCafferty
"Second Helpings"
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.
-Dalai Lama Xiv "Dalai Lama Xiv"
But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.
-Danny Wallace
"Yes Man"
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be
-Marcel Pagnol
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
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
"Nineteen Minutes"
