No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
-Colette
Quotations
Happiness
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
-William Saroyan
"My Heart's in the Highlands"
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.
-Sebastian Horsley
No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.
-Paulo Coelho
"The Zahir"
Happy people produce. Bored people consume.
-Stephen Richards
Happy is the unity of the Sangha. Happy is the discipline of the united ones.
-Dhammapada " Dhammapada 194"
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
-John Barrymore
We know, how to build a beautiful house, but we don’t know how to live within it happily.
-J. Krishnamurti
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
