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
Quotations
Happiness
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Happy people produce. Bored people consume.
-Stephen Richards
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
-Leo Tolstoy
"Anna Karenina"
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"
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
-Robert Frost
