Happy are those who mourn; God will comfort them.
-Jesus Christ
Quotations
Happiness
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
-Mary Baker Eddy
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
-Aristotle
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
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
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
-Oscar Wilde
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
