Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
-Karen Maezen Miller
"Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life"
Quotations
Happiness
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
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
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
-Alexandre Dumas
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
-Albert Camus
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does.
-Sri Chinmoy
Happy people produce. Bored people consume.
-Stephen Richards
Happiness is a late discovery.
-Fadi Dabour
