“If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day — go fishing.
If you want happiness for a month — get married.
If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else.
- Chinese proverb -
Man is fond of counting his troubles,
but he does not count his joys.
If he counted them up as he ought to,
he would see that every lot has enough happiness
provided for it.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Happiness is always a by-product.
It is probably a matter of temperament,
and for anything I know it may be glandular.
But it is not something that can be demanded from life,
and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about
it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand
of unhappiness.
- Robertson Davies -
