happiness

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

"Be patient. Your skin took a while to deteriorate. Give it some time to reflect a calmer inner state. As one of my friends states on his Facebook profile: "The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail to Try."

"You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes"."

"Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often."

"Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."

"Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That's its balance."

"Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age."

"If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires."

"Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous."

"We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away."

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

"An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me..."

"Happiness is something we reap from the seeds we sow. Plant misery seeds and that us what you reap."

"There are hours for rest, and hours for wakefulness; nights for sobriety and nights for drunkenness—(if only so that possession of the former allows us to discern the latter when we have it; for sad as it is, no human body can be happily drunk all the time)."

"The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy for yourself and yourself."

"The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H."

"Freedom lies in being bold."

"Challenges in life can either enrich you or poison you. You are the one who decides."

"She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration the first time she saw him outfitted in his dress blues."

"There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations"