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
Quotations
Happiness
If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.
-Alfred Bester
"The Stars My Destination"
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds and six, result misery.
-Charles Dickens
Yesterday I was sad, today I am happy! Yesterday I had a problem; today I still have the same problem! But today I changed the way I look at it!
-C. Joy Bell C.
Happiness is not a goal... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-Ernest Hemingway
Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
-Audrey Niffenegger
"The Time Traveler's Wife"
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
