happiness

"I know a girl from whose body sunbeams rose to the clouds as if they’d fallen from the sun.Her laugh was like a bangle of bells. “Your hair is wet,” I told her one day, “Did you take a bath?” “It is dew!” she laughed, “I’ve been lying in the grass. All morning long, I lay here waiting for the dawn."

"When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves."

"Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have."

"Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain."

"The universe doesn't give you what you want in your mind; it gives you what you demand with your actions."

"Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers."

"Always try to be joyful and proactively benign to the people. By doing so everyday, people have no control at all over my mood."

"How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?"

"I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table."Macbeth"

"Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling."

"At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel."

"If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suffering. A happy or unhappy life is your own creation. Nobody else is responsible. If you remember this, you won’t find fault with anybody. You are your own best friend as well as your worst enemy. (99)"

"I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy."

"We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing."

"Mara, that's the life I want to give you. That's what I'm offering you. I want to fill you life with color and warmth. I want to fill it with light. Give me a chance"

"Happiness comes from within. It is not dependent on external things or on other people. You become vulnerable and can be easily hurt when your feelings of security and happiness depend on the behavior and actions of other people. Never give your power to anyone else."

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."

"Suffering just means you’re having a bad dream. Happiness means you’re having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether."

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking."

"I would cling to unhappiness because it was a known, familiar state. When I was happier, it was because I knew I was on my way back to misery. I've never been convinced that happiness is the object of the game. I'm wary of happiness."