Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
-Robert Frost
Quotations
Happiness
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
-Gabriel García Márquez
You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does.
-Sri Chinmoy
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
-John Lennon
With a genuine keenness or readiness to serve others, one can attain happiness in any group or community, and the eagerness to serve others will endow you with the power and skill necessary for the required service. Nowadays, we tend to regard it as derogatory to serve, but there is great worth in service.
-Sathya Sai Baba "Sri Sathya Sai Baba"
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
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
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
-Andy Rooney
Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.
-Alex Flinn
"The movie, Beastly"
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
