To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with Spring.
-George Santayana "George Santayana"
Quotations
Happiness
-George Santayana "George Santayana"
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.
-Alex Flinn
"The movie, Beastly"
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
-Epictetus
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
-Gabriel García Márquez
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
-Robert Frost
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
Let us live happily, we who have no impediments. We shall subsist on joy even as the radiant gods.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada"
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
-Andy Rooney
