happiness

"A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering."

"Stop waiting for the right person to come into your life. Be the right person to come to someone’s life"

"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will."

"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."

"I had always been taught that the pursuit of happiness was my natural (even national) birthright. It is the emotional trademark of my culture to seek happiness. Not just any kind of happiness, either, but profound happiness, even soaring happiness. And what could possibly bring a person more soaring happiness than romantic love."

"The best way to insure you achieve the greatest satisfaction out of life is to behave intentionally."

"Friendship is thinking of the other person first."

"I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy."

"Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around."

"The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man."

"I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him."

"Whoever said happiness needs a plan?"

"Challenges in life can either enrich you or poison you. You are the one who decides."

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

"My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me."

"You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings."

"She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy."

"Happiness is what you choose, what you follow, not what follows you. These are the things I have seen, these are the things I now know, these are the things I will carry with me as I go."

"Those who wish to sing always find a song."

"Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens"