Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
-Ramana Maharshi
Quotations
Happiness
We know, how to build a beautiful house, but we don’t know how to live within it happily.
-J. Krishnamurti
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
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.
-Dennis Wholey
Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction, not from the vital’s or body’s satisfaction.
-Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo"
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"
The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.
-Nicholas Sparks
"Dear John"
