Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
-Epicurus
Quotations
Happiness
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called ‘All The Things That Could Go Wrong’.
-Marianne Williamson
Happy are those who work for peace: God will call them his children.
-Jesus Christ
He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day... needs to reorganize his life.
-George M. Adams
Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.
-Dennis Wholey
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
-Alexandre Dumas
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
-W. P. Kinsella
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
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"
