happiness

"Let today be the day you finally release yourself from the imprisonment of past grudges and anger. Simplify your life. Let go of the poisonous past and live the abundantly beautiful present... today."

"Through strength I found loveIn time I found myself in happiness with you"

"Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths."

"I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem."

"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"

"A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations."

"People with a grudge against the world are always dangerous. They seem to think life owes them something. I've known many an invalid who has suffered worse and been cut off from life much more . . . and they've managed to lead happy contented lives. It's what's in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy."

"Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness."

"Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?"

"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."

"Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow."

"Future is one of the wildest experiences that you will ever have."

"I know how syrupy this sounds, how dull, provincial, and possibly whitewashed, but what can I do? Happy childhoods happen"

"Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain."

"Our way of thinking creates good or bad outcomes."

"I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it."

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."

"when he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth."

"Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness."

"Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold of all the pain and snuff it out."