happiness

"Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living."

"Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression."

"I surround myself with things that make me happy. Why? Because ... it makes me happy."

"Stay away from conflictive, negative people that pull you down, because they contaminate your energy and impede your progress. Search for people who look at the world with optimism, that inspire you, make you happy and provide peace of mind."

"I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories, my knowledge of my mother would be faded and soft, with a few sharp memories standing out."

"Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)"

"If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song."

"There were times when I lifted my face to the sky, stretched my arms wide to the winter night, and laughed out loud, so happy was I.The memory of it makes me laugh now, but not from happiness.Be careful what you show the world.You never know when the wolf is watching."

"The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased."

"After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously happy in it."

"Here, also, the future was cried aloud by the wind through the rocks, so that all those who heard would shiver, and then the liquid spring song of the thrush would make all the beauty of moonlight and sunlight blend together, making it true, so true, that happiness must come again"

"We are young, but We already know that in life's great game those who are most unhappy are those who haven't taken the risk to be happy. And I don't want to be one of those"

"To buy a cake... to howl at the moon... to know true happiness... I am happy."

"Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night."

"It was not in me It came and wentI wanted to hold it It was held by wine(I no longer know what it was)"

"Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you."

"You know, people ask me. They say 'Dan, three years later do you really want to be drawing cat whiskers on your face?' but they don't understand. The cat whiskers, they come from within."

"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same."

"How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass."

"The decision is mine, and I choose happiness"