happiness

"Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don’t have to do it, but it’s here if you choose to come back to it."

"You would not want to be responsible for someone else’s happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours!"

"Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books."

"It's impossible to be unhappy while wearing a poncho!"

"I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem."

"If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room."

"I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that."

"Happiness is a warm puppy."

"Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That's its balance."

"[Poem: Slates of Grey]Sullen faces like slates of grey—What I’d seen on a walk today.Bodies rushing bodies boltingTime for life a disregarding.Money to make and to grow oldWhat about the hands to hold?Deadlines, projects, people to meetWhat about our own two feet.Sullen faces like slates of grey...What I’d see most anyday."

"The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star."

"Even in Siberia there is happiness."

"Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps."That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps."

"She couldn't avoid being serious about things she cared for, and happiness made her grave at the thought of all the things which might destroy it."

"She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS."

"When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved."

"Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone."

"Yesterday I was sad, today I am happy! Yesterday I had a problem, today I still have the same problem! But today I changed the way I look at it!"

"Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being. (109)"

"Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections"