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
Quotations
Happiness
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Khalil Gibran
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
If you closely observe life, you will find, here with every pleasure there is pain...
and with every pain, pleasure. Hence, among all that is happening, if you keep
your eyes fixed only at the brighter side of it, you can always be happy.
-Deep Trivedi
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
Happiness is only real when shared.
-Jon Krakauer
"Into the Wild"
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"
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
-Mahatma Gandhi
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
-Francis Bacon
