happiness

"Dreams. They start in your beautiful mind. Think of beautiful things and it will manifest into actions because your body will listen to you. Like it always does."

"And I didn't choose it, Kat. I chose you."

"[Poem: Slates of Grey]Sullen faces like slates of grey—What I’d seen on a walk today.Bodies rushing bodies boltingTime for life a disregarding.Money to make and to grow oldWhat about the hands to hold?Deadlines, projects, people to meetWhat about our own two feet.Sullen faces like slates of grey...What I’d see most anyday."

"Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!"

"The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness."

"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears."

"She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water."

"But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to."

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

"We are one of those couples i used to watch, thinking to myself that I'd never be on the inside of something so special. I remember reassuring myself that it probably looked nicer than it actually was, I am happy to be wrong about that."

"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired."

"Culture is an elevated expression of the inner voice which the different peoples of the Earth have heard in the depths of their being, a voice which conveys the vibrant compassion and wisdom of the cosmic life. For different cultures to engage in interaction is to catalyze each other's souls and foster mutual understanding."

"A FriendSomeoneYou're happy to see,Who's happy to see you.SomeoneYou like for who they areNot just for what they can do for you."

"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."

"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."

"The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality."

"There can be many opinions on a thing, but there is only one truth."Vashet smiled lazily. "And if the pursuit of the truth was my goal, that would concern me."She gave a long yawn, stretching like a happy cat. "Instead I will focus on the joy in my heart, [...}"

"I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect."

"Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness."

"Happiness is not in things; happiness is in you."