I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-Ernest Hemingway
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
-Eric Hoffer
Nothing in the world can make you happy; everything in the world can encourage you to be happy.
-Robert Holden
"Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good FAST"
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Khalil Gibran
Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don’t have to do it, but its here if you choose to come back to it.
-Ilona Andrews
"Magic Bleeds"
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Of Human Bondage"
If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
-Madonna
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller
