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"
Quotations
Happiness
Nothing in the world can make you happy; everything in the world can encourage you to be happy.
-Robert Holden
"Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good FAST"
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"
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-Ernest Hemingway
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
-George Washington
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
-Thomas Jefferson
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-Benjamin Franklin
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
-Madonna
Happy people produce. Bored people consume.
-Stephen Richards
