Lao Tan said, “I was letting my mind wander in the beginning of things.”
“What does this mean?” asked Confucius. Lao Tan said, “It means to attain Perfect Beauty and wander in Perfect Happiness. He who attains Perfect Beauty and wanders in Perfect Happiness may be called the Perfect Man.”
You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.
-Melisa De La Cruz
"The Van Alen Legacy"
The difference between love and happiness is that those who talk about love tend to be in love, but those who talk about happiness tend to be not happy.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
-Karl Marx
Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.
-Alex Flinn
"The movie, Beastly"
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
-Bertrand Russell
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
-Alexandre Dumas
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
-Colette
