Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
Quotations
Happiness
Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart.
-Amit Ray
"Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style"
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
-Bertrand Russell
One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
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
Everyone speaks of it, few know it.
-Marie Jeanne P. Roland
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller
Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
-Maurice Maeterlinck "Maurice Maeterlinck"
