happiness

"Life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy by yourself and for yourself. Happiness comes from within. You have the power to change your own mindset so that all the negative, horrible thoughts that try to invade your psyche are replaced with happy, positive, wonderful thoughts."

"Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work."

"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..."

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

"Then the world will be for the common people, and the sounds of happiness will reach the deepest springs. Ah! Come! People of every land, how can you not be roused."

"Here, also, the future was cried aloud by the wind through the rocks, so that all those who heard would shiver, and then the liquid spring song of the thrush would make all the beauty of moonlight and sunlight blend together, making it true, so true, that happiness must come again"

"Everyone who is not happy must be shot."

"...because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life."

"Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim."

"It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him."

"I want him to be happy. And I want you to be happy, too. Even if you can only find that happiness without me."

"Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes."

"The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs."

"You will be your best self when you take time to understand what you really need, feel and want."

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking."

"Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities."

"Stop trying to 'fix' yourself; you're NOT broken! You are perfectly imperfect and powerful beyond measure."

"And I don't believe in such a thing as "happily ever after". There's only happily every now and then. I find the hardest trick is to recognize the now-and-thens, and to bask in them when they come. Happiness is a choice we make, like how to wear our hair, or having coffee with breakfast and tea at night."

"We live in a community of people not so that we can suppress and dominate eachother or make each other miserable but so that we can better and more reliably satisfy all life's healthy needs."

"Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's."