No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.
-Paulo Coelho
"The Zahir"
Quotations
Happiness
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
We know, how to build a beautiful house, but we don’t know how to live within it happily.
-J. Krishnamurti
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
What is the definition of joy? When you get an opportunity to do what you really
want to, the feeling that you experience then, is called "Joy".
-Deep Trivedi
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
-Andy Rooney
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
-Karl Marx
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"
Happy are those who work for peace: God will call them his children.
-Jesus Christ
