happiness

"I wanted color. I wanted to soar with happiness even if it meant dealing with the weight of fear and guilt, too. I wanted to live."

"Don't show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you'll see is hate and jealousy, and you'll fight with him in the street like a dog and all you'll feel is regret."

"Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends."

"Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that’s consistent with those beliefs."

"He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul."

"Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once."

"Come clean with a child heartLaugh as peaches in the summer windLet rain on a house roof be a songLet the writing on your facebe a smell of apple orchards on late June."

"The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."

"The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased."

"We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain."

"I think instead [of happiness] we should be working for contentment... an inner sense of fulfillment that's relatively independent of external circumstances."

"Write it on your heart you are the most beautiful soul of the Universe. Realize it, honor it and celebrate the life."

"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)"

"...The world is full of happy people but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal to get in the papers. No one knows about all the happy people..."

"In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of even greater importance."

"Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart."

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing."

"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."

"I know money isn't everything. but it certainly is something."

"Learn from your history, but don’t live in it."