happiness

"That was enterprising,"Will sounded nearly impressed.Nate smiled. Tess shot him a furious look. "Don't look pleased with yourself. When Will says 'enterprising' he means 'morally deficient.'""No, I mean enterprising,"said Will. "When I mean morally deficient, I say, 'Now, that's something I would have done'."

"God bless Dunkin' Donuts."

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

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."

"Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But if there was one thing she'd learned in the past few weeks, it was that sometimes, when you're really lucky, you meet someone with a map."

"Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression."

"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."

"In his or her own way, everyone I saw before me looked happy. Whether they were really happy or just looked it, I couldn't tell. But they did look happy on this pleasant early afternoon in late September, and because of that I felt a kind of loneliness new to me, as if I were the only one here who was not truly part of the scene."

"Even the smallest shift in perspective can bring about the greatest healing."

"Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase."

"When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies."

"He was a wonderful man. And when a man is that special, you know it sooner than you think possible. You recognize it instinctively, and you're certain that no matter what happens, there will never be another one like him."

"But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along."

"If there was one thing that life has taught me, it’s to accept the most foolish and unthinkable happiness."

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

"A woman's happiness is in throwing everything away to live for love."

"Dreams are always crushing when they don't come true. But it's the simple dreams that are often the most painful because they seem so personal, so reasonable, so attainable. You're always close enough to touch, but never quite close enough to hold and it's enough to break your heart."

"Happiness, it has been observed, is best achieved by those who have been most unhappy heretofore."

"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."

"Money can't buy happiness, but it certainly is a stress reliever."