No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
Quotations
Happiness
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
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
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
-Bertrand Russell
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
-John Dewey
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
-George Bernard Shaw
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
-Albert Schweitzer
Let us live happily, we who have no impediments. We shall subsist on joy even as the radiant gods.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada"
I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.
-Megan McCafferty
"Second Helpings"
