happiness

"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind."

"The lesson will always repeat itself, unless you see yourself as the problem--not others."

"Merry hearts are vulnerable to death, don't be over-joyed to the state of oblivion, lest the enemy poison your meal."

"The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star."

"Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone."

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters."

"In a person's lifetime there may be not more than half a dozen occasions that he can look back to in the certain knowledge that right then, at that moment, there was room for nothing but happiness in his heart."

"She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy."

"Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invicible host against difficulties."

"Happiness is the pleasantest of emotions; because of this, it is the most dangerous. Having once felt happiness, one will do anything to maintain it, and losing it, one will grieve."

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

"I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They're worse than zombies. People try to crush your soul and destroy your happiness, but zombies just want to have a little nibble of your brain."

"When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness."

"When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved."

"I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep."

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

"The true measure of a man is how he treats you when others are not looking."

"It is sad that people need alcohol to make them happy."

"The victim mindset dilutes the human potential. By not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them."

"Come clean with a child heartLaugh as peaches in the summer windLet rain on a house roof be a songLet the writing on your facebe a smell of apple orchards on late June."