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
Strength is happiness. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness.
-Daisaku Ikeda "Daisaku Ikeda"
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
I am so happy in your happiness. To you, happiness is a form of freedom, and of all the people I know you should be free.
-Khalil Gibran
Happy are those who mourn; God will comfort them.
-Jesus Christ
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
-Leo Tolstoy
"Anna Karenina"
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Khalil Gibran
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
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"
