I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
-Robert Frost
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
-Ray Bradbury
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"
Don't put off happiness you can have today. Tomorrow is a hope, not a promise.
-Debra Anastasia
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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
That happiness which comes after misery is all the more enjoyable; it is to one scorched in the sun that the shade of the tree gives exceptional relief.
-Kalidas "Kalidas"
What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt and has a clear conscience?
-Adam Smith
Why should we build our happiness on the opinions of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
"The Social Contract and Discourses"
