It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
Quotations
Happiness
Why should we build our happiness on the opinions of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
"The Social Contract and Discourses"
Let us live happily, we who have no impediments. We shall subsist on joy even as the radiant gods.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada"
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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"
What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt and has a clear conscience?
-Adam Smith
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy are those who work for peace: God will call them his children.
-Jesus Christ
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strength is happiness. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness.
-Daisaku Ikeda "Daisaku Ikeda"
