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"
Quotations
Happiness
The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.
-Nicholas Sparks
"Dear John"
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Human intelligence lies in making such choices that whatever he desires or
attains out of them...the end result should only be happiness.
-Deep Trivedi
Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
-Epicurus
Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.
-Dennis Wholey
Happy are those who mourn; God will comfort them.
-Jesus Christ
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
The only satisfactory definition of happiness is wholeness.
-Helen Keller
