If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
-Jules Renard
"The Journal of Jules Renard"
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction not from satisfaction of vitals or body.
-Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo"
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
-Ramana Maharshi
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Of Human Bondage"
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
-Karen Maezen Miller
"Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life"
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
