happiness

"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."

"If you love a person, you should show it in adundance, not reserve it for special occasions like fine china."

"Write it on your heart you are the most beautiful soul of the Universe. Realize it, honor it and celebrate the life."

"Take responsibility for your own happiness, do not expect people or things to bring you happiness, or you could be disappointed."

"Sometimes we assume that the new person in our life is better for us because they are totally different from the last person we dated. Only later do we see that we have chosen a different version of the same thing and they both leave us unsatisfied."

"It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it."

"Laugh, and the world laughs with you;Weep, and you weep alone;For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,But has trouble enough of its own."

"Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own."

"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."

"Are you happy?"

"Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort."

"Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two."

"There is nothing worse for the lying soul than the mirror of reality."

"LEONATOWell, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.BEATRICENot till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred."

"Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind."

"Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening."

"When I die, don't come, I wouldn't want a leafto turn away from the sun -- it loves it there.There's nothing so spiritual about being happybut you can't miss a day of it, because it doesn't last."

"Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself."

"My only regrets are the moments when i doubted myself and took the safe route. Life is too short to waste time being unhappy."

"Love, I thought to myself abstractedly. Not 'This is love' or 'Is this love?' Not a sentence, not a certainty, not a thought with moving parts or direction. Just love, all of it, as it is. Whether it's enough or not. Wthether it's real or we're making it up. However shoddy it gets, or bent out of shape. It's still extraordinary. However foolish, however vain. However badly it ends. Love."