We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller
Quotations
Happiness
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
-Oscar Wilde
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
Happiness is a late discovery.
-Fadi Dabour
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
-Ray Bradbury
Why should we build our happiness on the opinions of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
"The Social Contract and Discourses"
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
"The Zahir"
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
-Marty Rubin
I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.
-Megan McCafferty
"Second Helpings"
