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"
Quotations
Happiness
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
When you let go of past pain, believe in yourself and follow your dreams—you can find true happiness!
-Casi McLean
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yesterday I was sad, today I am happy! Yesterday I had a problem; today I still have the same problem! But today I changed the way I look at it!
-C. Joy Bell C.
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
-Kin Hubbard
If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
-Jules Renard
"The Journal of Jules Renard"
If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.
-Alfred Bester
"The Stars My Destination"
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 "Maurice Maeterlinck"
Everyone speaks of it, few know it.
-Marie Jeanne P. Roland
