happiness

"Like love, like talent, like any other virtue, like anything else in this life, happiness needs to be nurtured - this is the truth of the whole matter."

"Today, just take time to smell the roses, enjoy those little things about your life, your family, spouse, friends, job. Forget about the thorns -the pains and problems they cause you - and enjoy life"

"Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope."

"If you want good luck; you must go out there and search for that luck!! Because luck is waiting for you to look for it."

"Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy."

"Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think. So start each day by thinking of all the things you have to be thankful for. Your future will depend very largely on the thoughts you think today. So think thoughts of hope and confidence and love and success."

"All who joy would winMust share it -- Happiness was born a twin."

"I’d rather be miserable loving you than happy with anyone else."

"I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room"

"when he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth."

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

"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!"

"When I die, don't come, I wouldn't want a leafto turn away from the sun -- it loves it there.There's nothing so spiritual about being happybut you can't miss a day of it, because it doesn't last."

"Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness."

"When your back is to the wall and you are facing fear head on, the only way is forward and through it."

"Love yourself. Forgive yourself. Be true to yourself. How you treat yourself sets the standard for how others will treat you."

"Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it’s exciting, and if you do it every day it’s exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just almost every day, it’s not good any more."

"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..."

"You need to figure out what you want, Josh. If that means you need to swim against the tide to get it, at least youre aiming for something that could make you very happy."

"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."