There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
-Francis Bacon
Quotations
Happiness
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
-Oscar Wilde
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
-Ray Bradbury
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called ‘All The Things That Could Go Wrong’.
-Marianne Williamson
We know, how to build a beautiful house, but we don’t know how to live within it happily.
-J. Krishnamurti
Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don’t have to do it, but its here if you choose to come back to it.
-Ilona Andrews
"Magic Bleeds"
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
-George Bernard Shaw
Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
-Epicurus
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
