It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
Quotations
Happiness
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
-Ray Bradbury
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
-Epictetus
But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.
-Danny Wallace
"Yes Man"
Everyone speaks of it, few know it.
-Marie Jeanne P. Roland
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
-George Bernard Shaw
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
Happy are those who work for peace: God will call them his children.
-Jesus Christ
Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.
-Alex Flinn
"The movie, Beastly"
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"
