Bad fortune Quote by Johan Huizinga

One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy. I am just beginning to make some progress in the science,…

— George Eliot

“It has been observed in all ages that the advantages of nature or of fortune have contributed very little to the promotion of happiness;…

— Samuel Johnson

All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist…

— E. B. White

“Happiness was different in childhood. It was so much then a matter simply of accumulation, of taking things--new experiences, new emotions--and applying them like…

— John Banville

“Never in my nearly eighty years of life on earth had I experienced a greater or more bitter contrast between happiness (the happiness I…

— George Saunders

“Happiness is like time and space--we make and measure it ourselves; it is a fancy--as big, as little, as you please; just a thing…

— George Du Maurier

Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.

— Colum McCann

I still remember the world through the eyes of a child. Suddenly those feelings were clouded by what I know now.

— Evanescence

Childhood has best memories of whole life, which starts with happiness and ends with sadness..

— Sahil Rathod

Happiness was different in childhood. It was so much then a matter simply of accumulation, of taking things - new experiences, new emotions -…

— John Banville

Happiness could very well be defined by knowing that you brought joy to others during the time you were part of their life's journey.

— Nishan Panwar