I didn’t want to be in love with you. I didn’t want to believe in love at all. It’s never happened to me before. And to be perfectly frank, I’m still not entirely happy about the whole thing. I think it’s going to be exhausting.
—Shana Abe in Queen of Dragons
More quotations tagged with “happiness”
Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
—Swami Sivananda
We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die.… You might say these are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.
—William Boyd
To forget oneself is to be happy.
—Robert Louis Stevenson
The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you’re unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously.
—Tom Robbins in Jitterbug Perfume
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
—Benjamin Disraeli
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