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"
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness is only real when shared.
-Jon Krakauer
"Into the Wild"
Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
-Maurice Maeterlinck "Maurice Maeterlinck"
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
-Tom Bodett
Hiding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.
-Jenny O'connell
"The Book of Luke"
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
-Aristotle
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
-Ray Bradbury
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
