Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
Quotations
Happiness
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
-John Dewey
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
-Mary Baker Eddy
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
-W. P. Kinsella
Lao Tan said, “I was letting my mind wander in the beginning of things.”
“What does this mean?” asked Confucius. Lao Tan said, “It means to attain Perfect Beauty and wander in Perfect Happiness. He who attains Perfect Beauty and wanders in Perfect Happiness may be called the Perfect Man.”
-Scriptures "Chuang Tzu 21"
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
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"
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
-George Bernard Shaw
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
-Kin Hubbard
