happiness

"Yesterday I was sad, today I am happy! Yesterday I had a problem, today I still have the same problem! But today I changed the way I look at it!"

"I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world."

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

"Exactly. How can you know it makes you happy if you’ve never experienced it?”“There are different kinds of happy,” she said. “Some kinds don’t need any proof."

"Suffering sucks. Don't do it. Go home and love your wife. Go home and love yourself. Go homeand base your happiness on one thing and one thing only: freedom. Choose freedom, not suffering. Create a life of freedom, not wanting. Have some really good coffee and listen to the red-winged blackbirds in the marsh. Ignore the mosquitoes."

"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."

"Sometimes it just feels really really wonderful to be alive."

"Honest, open communication is the only street that leads us into the real world... We then begin to grow as never before. And once we are on this road, happiness cannot be far away."

"Even the smallest shift in perspective can bring about the greatest healing."

"We thought everything would be forgotten, but I still remember yourclaws running down my back.I wonder if you still think about us,the way I do.How our legs would crash into each other in the middle of the night, and how we endedup creating the moon in the confines of our beds."

"[F]or just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever."

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."

"A good friend will always stab you in the front."

"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,One clover, and a bee,And revery.The revery alone will do,If bees are few."

"The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour."

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

"Some people would rather live in a hell they've got used to than in a paradise they've never experienced before."

"I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.Brian Sibley: Or brains even?Oh gosh, yes, brains is one of the least. You can be a lovely person without brains, absolutely lovely. Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind.If you're kind that's it."

"Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps."That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps."

"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."