I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings… It’s something we make inside ourselves.
-Cornelia "Corrie" Ten Boom
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
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Of Human Bondage"
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
-John Barrymore
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
-Aristotle
Holiness leads to wholeness and wholeness leads to happiness.
-Leslie Vernick
"Lord, I Just Want to Be Happy"
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller
Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.
-Alex Flinn
"The movie, Beastly"
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-Benjamin Franklin
