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
Quotations
Happiness
If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
-Madonna
Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
-Maurice Maeterlinck "Maurice Maeterlinck"
What is the definition of joy? When you get an opportunity to do what you really
want to, the feeling that you experience then, is called "Joy".
-Deep Trivedi
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
-Epicurus
For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.
-Marilyn Manson
"My Story"
Happiness is a late discovery.
-Fadi Dabour
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
-Kin Hubbard
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
