“Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.”

— Albert Camus, book A Happy Death

Seulement, il faut du temps pour être heureux. Beaucoup de temps. Le bonheur lui aussi est une longue patience.
A Happy Death (1971)

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Albert Camus209

French author and journalist 1913–1960

Steve Maraboli (1975)

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 36
Context: Time waits for no one. There is only one time for happiness and the time is NOW!

“And what is happiness, Nathan? In my experience, it's only a moment's pause here and there on what is otherwise a long and difficult road. No one can be happy all the time.”

William Kent Krueger book Ordinary Grace

Source: Ordinary Grace

“Justice is the only worship.
Love is the only priest.
Ignorance is the only slavery.
Happiness is the only good.
The time to be happy is now,
The place to be happy is here,
The way to be happy is to make others so.
Wisdom is the science of happiness.”

Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer

“If our definition of happiness is "experiencing that which is pleasurable," we are going to be disappointed a lot of the time.”

Noah Levine (1971) American Buddhist teacher

The Heart of the Revolution (2011)

“Friendship only exist during happy times. There lies a betrayal line beyond those happy moments.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.”

Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet

“Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher

Journal entry (8 July 1916), p. 74e
1910s, Notebooks 1914-1916
Context: There are two godheads: the world and my independent I.
I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist.
A man who is happy must have no fear. Not even in the face of death.
Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.