Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
-Andy Rooney
Quotations
Happiness
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
-Jacques Prévert
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
-Thomas Jefferson
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy people produce. Bored people consume.
-Stephen Richards
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called ‘All The Things That Could Go Wrong’.
-Marianne Williamson
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
-William Saroyan
"My Heart's in the Highlands"
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
-Robert Frost
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
