happiness

"Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness."

"At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel."

"The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can."

"She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water."

"The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for."

"You don’t have to be happy to smile."

"When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness."

"Happiness is a big joke; let us laugh at it loud."

"There is nothing worse for the lying soul than the mirror of reality."

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

"I like living, breathing better than working...my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral, it's a sort of constant euphoria."

"I do not think we have a "right"to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks."

"Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it."

"Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living."

"You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes"."

"Destiny is real. And she's not mild-mannered. She will come around and hit you in the face and knock you over and before you know what hit you, you're naked- stripped of everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you didn't know- and there you are! A bloody nose, bruises all over you, and naked. And it's the most beautiful thing."

"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."

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

"Happy is the soul that has a friend. Happier is the soul that trusts in the truth of the heart of a friend. Happiest is the soul that knows the solemnity of friendship and honours its laws."

"That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another...."