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
Quotations
Happiness
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
-Alexandre Dumas
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
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
-George Bernard Shaw
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
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"
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
-Colette
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
-Karen Maezen Miller
"Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life"
