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
Quotations
Happiness
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
-Bertrand Russell
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
-Drew Barrymore
Happiness is not a goal... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Every day you can inspire others through your sincere concern for humanity’s happiness and progress.
-Sri Chinmoy "Sri Chinmoy"
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
-Karl Marx
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds and six, result misery.
-Charles Dickens
If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.
-Alfred Bester
"The Stars My Destination"
