happiness

"The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure."

"This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy."

"Most of our suffering comes from resisting what is already here, particularly our feelings. All any feeling wants is to be welcomed, touched, allowed. It wants attention. It wants kindness. If you treated your feelings with as much love as you treated your dog or your cat or your child, you'd feel as if you were living in heaven every day of your sweet life."

"so I wait for you like a lonely housetill you will see me again and live in me.Till then my windows ache."

"He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt."

"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."

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

"he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with. i have to believe that’s a sign."

"How aware are we of our own inner life, our spirituality-something so intangible yet so priceless? How much effort do we make to perceive that which is not obvious, which can neither be seen nor heard? I believe the exploration and enrichment of the human spirit is what determines our very humanity. Such enrichment provides an inner compass that can lead civilizations to greatness."

"Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf."

"I don't want to be the one who says life is beautiful. I want to be the one who feels it."

"Helping others is the secret sauce to a happy life."

"Happiness only real when shared."

"Expect more get less and feel sadness Or expect less get more and feel happiness"

"You need to figure out what you want, Josh. If that means you need to swim against the tide to get it, at least youre aiming for something that could make you very happy."

"There is nothing worse for the lying soul than the mirror of reality."

"Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever."

"Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?"

"I wish I had never been born,"she said. "What are we born for?""For infinite happiness,"said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment..."

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