happiness

"Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world."

"Happiness is a nothingness without completeness."

"The greatest love stories are not those in which love is only spoken, but those in which it is acted upon."

"Happiness is not a state of being. Happiness is a vector, it is movement."

"I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune."

"If you're not getting happier as you get older, then you're fuckin' up"

"...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."

"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."

"Love is too precious to be ashamed of."

"No medicine cures what happiness cannot."

"I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for."

"We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves."

"The pretty ones are usually unhappy. They expect everyone to be enamored of their beauty. How can a person be content when their happiness lies in someone else's hands, ready to be crushed at any moment? Ordinary-looking people are far superior, because they are forced to actually work hard to achieve their goals, instead of expecting people to fall all over themselves to help them."

"There is a fine line between compassion and a victim mentality. Compassion though is a healing force and comes from a place of kindness towards yourself. Playing the victim is a toxic waste of time that not only repels other people, but also robs the victim of ever knowing true happiness."

"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."

"Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity."

"One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno."

"Don't wait for other people to be loving, giving, compassionate, grateful, forgiving, generous, or friendly... lead the way!"

"And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition."

"Control of consciousness determines the quality of life."