It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness is not the absence of problems. It’s the ability to deal with them.
-Steve Maraboli
"Life, the Truth, and Being Free"
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
-Aristotle
What is the definition of happiness? The feeling that arises when you are acting
according to your nature, is called "Happiness".
-Deep Trivedi
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be
-Marcel Pagnol
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
-Kin Hubbard
Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.
-Madonna
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"
Everyone speaks of it, few know it.
-Marie Jeanne P. Roland
