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
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you always want to be happy in life, toy with troubles as if it were a game. See;
whether you defeat the problems or they defeat you.
-Deep Trivedi
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
-Leo Tolstoy
"Anna Karenina"
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
-Drew Barrymore
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"
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
-Jacques Prévert
You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does.
-Sri Chinmoy
