I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
Quotations
Happiness
I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.
-Sebastian Horsley
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
-George Washington
No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.
-Paulo Coelho
"The Zahir"
If you think happiness is a rare bird, you won't see much of it.
-Marty Rubin
A mathematical formula for happiness: Reality divided by Expectations. There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations.
-Jodi Picoult
"Nineteen Minutes"
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds and six, result misery.
-Charles Dickens
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
