Famous Quotes

"The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness."

"Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing."

"Clearly the secret of happiness...is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping."

"I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air. or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep."

"How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart."

"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired."

"Are you happy?"

"The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do."

"We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves."

"All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it."

"De pronto tuve conciencia de que ese momento, de que esa rebanada de cotidianidad, era el grado máximo de bienestar, era la Dicha. Nunca había sido tan plenamente feliz como en ese momento, pero tenía la hiriente sensación de que nunca más volvería a serlo, por lo menos en ese grado, con esa intensidad"

"Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen."

"...The world is full of happy people but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal to get in the papers. No one knows about all the happy people..."

"What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it."

"[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well."

"You have to be willing to get happy about nothing."

"I've learned .... That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere."

"Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But if there was one thing she'd learned in the past few weeks, it was that sometimes, when you're really lucky, you meet someone with a map."

"We are all happy if we but knew it."

"Life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy by yourself and for yourself. Happiness comes from within. You have the power to change your own mindset so that all the negative, horrible thoughts that try to invade your psyche are replaced with happy, positive, wonderful thoughts."

"Oh, how unbearable is a happy person sometimes!"

"It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations."