40 AUTHORS ON HOW TO BE HAPPY

Beautiful words from Famous Classic Authors

Happiness is something that we all seek. Sometimes it seems like an elusive word filled with so much meaning, just a fingertip out of reach. Other times we can bask in it’s glow and feel fulfilled.

But happiness means different things to everyone. Have a look at how classic authors through time have defined happiness.

Check it out, and let us know your definition!

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MARK TWAIN

“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”

 

LEO TOLSTOY

“Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story”

 

AYN RAND

“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”

 

CHUCK PALAHNIUK

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”

 

CHARLOTTE BRONTË

“Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste”

 

HUNTER S THOMPSON

“I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”

 

OSCAR WILDE

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”

 

HARUKI MURAKAMI

“But who can say what’s best? That’s why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.”

 

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

 

KURT VONNEGUT

“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.”

 

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”

 

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“ If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier.”

 

FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.”

 

SYLVIA PLATH

“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”

 

JANE AUSTEN

“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”

 

DOUGLAS ADAMS

“I’d far rather be happy than right any day.”

 

GILLIAN FLYNN

“The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.”

 

CHARLES DICKENS

“Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.”

 

VICTOR HUGO

“The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one’s own sake — let us say rather, loved in spite of one’s self.”

 

STEPHEN KING

 

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