It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
Quotations
Happiness
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart.
-Amit Ray
"Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style"
Everyone speaks of it, few know it.
-Marie Jeanne P. Roland
Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.
-Madonna
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
-William Saroyan
"My Heart's in the Highlands"
Those with indomitable spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm, that is true happiness.
-A Spiritual Leader "Paramahansa Yogananda"
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
-Albert Schweitzer
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
-Marty Rubin
But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.
-Danny Wallace
"Yes Man"
