We know, how to build a beautiful house, but we don’t know how to live within it happily.
-J. Krishnamurti
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
-Alexandre Dumas
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-Benjamin Franklin
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
-Gabriel García Márquez
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
-Thomas Jefferson
Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings… It’s something we make inside ourselves.
-Cornelia "Corrie" Ten Boom
Happiness is a late discovery.
-Fadi Dabour
Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
-Audrey Niffenegger
"The Time Traveler's Wife"
Happiness is only real when shared.
-Jon Krakauer
"Into the Wild"
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
-Bertrand Russell
