happiness

"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."

"[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well."

"Today, just take time to smell the roses, enjoy those little things about your life, your family, spouse, friends, job. Forget about the thorns -the pains and problems they cause you - and enjoy life"

"Taking a risk to survive isn’t that impressive. Taking a risk to be happy, that takes guts."

"...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying."

"We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory."

"People expected something for nothing, that’s why they did nothing so beautifully these days."

"The quickest way to experiencing the peace inside, is to learn to recognize when I am not at peace."

"Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God."

"An empty bus hurtles through the starry nightPerhaps the driver is singingand happy because he sings."

"I hate going through this when we just found...,"his voice trailed off."Found what?""Each other,"he finished, half-smiling."

"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."

"Freddie often fold me that you've got to be happy when you can, because life won't wait for you to take the time. And she was right."

"Learn from your history, but don’t live in it."

"He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star."

"Call no man happy until he is dead."

"It's hard to say. Sometimes people have had terrible childhoods. And sometimes they just haven't found their special place in life. And sometimes they're dogs from hell and must be destroyed."

"A day unemployed is like a bagel- even when it's bad, it's still pretty good..."

"Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night."