“How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.”— Mary Shelley, amazon.com
“What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again.”— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com
“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, en.marcel-pagnol.com
“I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“I don't know if I'm unhappy because I'm not free, or if I'm not free because I'm unhappy.”— Jean-Luc Godard, Patricia Franchini, Jean Seberg, amazon.com
“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, en.marcel-pagnol.com
“It is much easier to understand what makes people unhappy than to understand what makes them happy. Happiness is undermined or destroyed by violence, poverty, illness, and other external factors, leading to the inner states of depression, anxiety, and misery.”— Deepak Chopra, huffingtonpost.com
“Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“He now felt glad at having suffered sorrow and trouble, because it enabled him to enjoy so much better all the pleasure and happiness around him”— Hans Christian Andersen, amazon.com
“She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.”— Hans Christian Andersen, amazon.com
“I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I wanted. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.”— Jonathan Franzen, amazon.com
“If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.”— Richard Bach, amazon.com
“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com