It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
Quotations
Happiness
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
When you let go of past pain, believe in yourself and follow your dreams—you can find true happiness!
-Casi McLean
Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.
-William J. Bennett
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
We know, how to build a beautiful house, but we don’t know how to live within it happily.
-J. Krishnamurti
For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.
-Marilyn Manson
"My Story"
