It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
Quotations
Happiness
Strength is happiness. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness.
-Daisaku Ikeda "Daisaku Ikeda"
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
-Drew Barrymore
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"
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
-John Dewey
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
-George Washington
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller
Holiness leads to wholeness and wholeness leads to happiness.
-Leslie Vernick
"Lord, I Just Want to Be Happy"
I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.
-Megan McCafferty
"Second Helpings"
