happiness

"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same."

"I learned you pay for your happiness. That's why I don't expect to be happy all the time. I'd rather be surprised by one moment every so often to remind me that joy is possible, even if I have to pay for it later."

"Sometimes we assume that the new person in our life is better for us because they are totally different from the last person we dated. Only later do we see that we have chosen a different version of the same thing and they both leave us unsatisfied."

"It was always a relief when she came home to him. Like water or food. Like music or that moment when you cut yourself with a knife and squeeze the skin and no blood oozes out."

"I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that; I AM BETTER THAN THAT...Goodbye."

"Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched."

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

"I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything."

"I may never be happy, but tonight I am content."

"That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep."

"It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything."

"But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem:they might point to the catkins hangingfrom the empty hazel trees, or direct us to the raindescending on black earth in early spring. ---And we, who always think of happinessrising, would feel the emotionthat almost baffles uswhen a happy thing falls."

"We have to go. I'm almost happy here."

"The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity."

"A lifetime of lonely regret or happiness with some pain along the way."

"No one invites you to the top - you have to claw your way up. When you get there, you will sit with the others who were also uninvited - giggling."

"When you fail, that is when you get closer to success."

"There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons."

"In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?"

"Whoever said happiness needs a plan?"