Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
-Albert Schweitzer
Quotations
Happiness
Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
-Audrey Niffenegger
"The Time Traveler's Wife"
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
-George Bernard Shaw
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
-John Barrymore
It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.
-Dale Carnegie
"How to Win Friends and Influence People"
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
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
-Andy Rooney
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
-Eric Hoffer
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"
