happiness

"Much of what we called "depression"was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for."

"As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of Eros that when he is in us we had rather share unhappiness with the Beloved than be happy on any other terms."

"When your back is to the wall and you are facing fear head on, the only way is forward and through it."

"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government"

"Love is too precious to be ashamed of."

"I wished upon a star and the heavens sent me you"

"He tapped my chest. 'Happy is here.' He tapped his own chest. 'Here.'I looked down past my chin. 'Inside?''Inside.'It was getting crowded in there. First angel. Now happy. It seemed there was more to me than cabbage and turnips."

"You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down."

"Even in Siberia there is happiness."

"Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it."

"Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand, then played his pipes. They rearranged themselves in a pattern that made no sense to me, but Grover looked concerned. "That's us,"he said. "Those five nuts right there.""Which one is me?"I asked. "The little deformed one,"Zoe suggested. "Oh, shut up."

"Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out."

"True happiness is when the love that is within us finds expression in external activities."

"Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap."

"Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around."

"LEONATOWell, then, go you into hell?BEATRICENo, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to heaven; here's no place for you maids:' so deliver I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long."

"No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make."

"Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead"

"In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail."

"Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!"