No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
-Colette
Quotations
Happiness
If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
-Jules Renard
"The Journal of Jules Renard"
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with Spring.
-George Santayana "George Santayana"
Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
-Epicurus
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"
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
-Steven Kloves
"The movie, “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
-Kin Hubbard
If you think happiness is a rare bird, you won't see much of it.
-Marty Rubin
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
