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"
Quotations
Happiness
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
The difference between love and happiness is that those who talk about love tend to be in love, but those who talk about happiness tend to be not happy.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of even greater importance.
-Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
-Jacques Prévert
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.
-Sebastian Horsley
No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.
-Paulo Coelho
"The Zahir"
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
