No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
-Colette
Quotations
Happiness
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
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
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
Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
-Karen Maezen Miller
"Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life"
We know, how to build a beautiful house, but we don’t know how to live within it happily.
-J. Krishnamurti
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
-Gerard Way
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
-Ray Bradbury
