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
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
-Jules Renard
"The Journal of Jules Renard"
Why should we build our happiness on the opinions of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
"The Social Contract and Discourses"
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
-John Dewey
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
-Oscar Wilde
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
-Karl Marx
If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.
-Robert Brault
