happiness

"Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom"

"The exaltation and happiness of any community, goes hand in hand with the knowledge possessed by the people, when applied to laudable ends; whereupon we can exclaim like the wise man; righteousness exalteth a nation; for righteousness embraces knowledge and knowledge is power."

"Tatsuya: What you have "right now"won't necessarily continue on until forever...Hiro: ... Yeah, I know."

"If you write it down, you can make it happen."

"Maybe this is a characteristic of happy people. An ability to be entertained by the world."

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever."

"I find no importance in showing others that I am happy; it's not important to me that they know or think that I am happy but what is important to me is that I am happy. I am interested in being happy, not in making others think or know that I am."

"One swallow does not make a summer,neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy."

"There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes."

"And for a moment―for a split second―everything else falls away, the whole pattern and order of my life, and a huge joy crests in my chest. I am no one, and I owe nothing to anybody, and my life is my own."

"When we give up the chase, we give up our wishing."

"Unhappiness can be like a virus spreading from one person, to the next person, to the next one and so on. When someone is mean or rude to you, do not let their unhappiness infect your own life. If you are the unhappy one, please quarantine yourself so you do not infect others!"

"When I die, don't come, I wouldn't want a leafto turn away from the sun -- it loves it there.There's nothing so spiritual about being happybut you can't miss a day of it, because it doesn't last."

"Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness."

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

"These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment."

"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."

"To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness."

"My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose."

"It's all about the smiles!"