Those with indomitable spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm, that is true happiness.
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
One never knows what joy one might find amongst the unwanted.
-Anonymous
"The movie,Kinky Boots"
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
-Leo Tolstoy
"Anna Karenina"
Everyone speaks of it, few know it.
-Marie Jeanne P. Roland
If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.
-Robert Brault
Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.
-Alex Flinn
"The movie, Beastly"
Happiness is not the absence of problems. It’s the ability to deal with them.
-Steve Maraboli
"Life, the Truth, and Being Free"
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller
