Hector

(American Authors - Best day of my life)

This is a little homage to the great film 'Hector and the Search for Happiness'. So some of the quotes from this very film:

“Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.” 

“The basic mistake people make is to think that happiness is the goal.”

“Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.” 

“Many people see happiness only in their future.” 

“I'm old enough to ask myself that question, but not so old that I don't care what the answer is.” 

“Happiness. We're tearing our hair out to try to find a definition of it, for heaven's sake. Is it joy? People will tell you that it isn't, that joy is a fleeting emotion, a moment of happiness, which is always welcome, mind you. And then what about pleasure, huh? Oh, yes, that's easy, everybody knows what that is, but there again it doesn't last. But is happiness not the sum total of lots of small joys and pleasures, huh?” 

“It's one thing thinking something and another thing knowing it.” 

“Lesson no. 17: Happiness is caring about the happiness of those you love.”  

“happiness is a different thing altogether. If you try to achieve it, you have every chance of failing. And besides, how would you ever know that you’d achieved it? Of course one can’t blame people, especially unhappy people, for wanting to be happier and setting themselves goals in order to try to escape from their unhappiness.”

“The only shadow on my happiness is when I tell myself sometimes that as it's all going well, it can't last, that one day things won't be so good.”

“Avoiding unhappiness is not the road to happiness.”

"Happiness is being loved for who you are."

"Fear is an impediment to happiness."

"Happiness is feeling completely alive." 

 

“True wisdom would be the ability to live without this scenery, to be the same person even at the bottom of a well. But that, it has to be said, is not so easy.