happiness

"I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that; I AM BETTER THAN THAT...Goodbye."

"Be happy with who you are and what you do, and you can do anything you want."

"I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride."

"Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them."

"In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves."

"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."

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

"For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit."

"Our way of thinking creates good or bad outcomes."

"Lord, make me nowAs happy as the field.With flowers enriched..."

"There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense."

"I like to believe that you don't need to reach a certain goal to be happy. I prefer to think that happiness is always there, and that when things don't go the way we might like them to, it's a sign from above that something even better is right around the corner."

"When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you."

"To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness."

"Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain."

"The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up."

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."

"Don't put off happiness you can have today. Tomorrow is a hope, not a promise"

"After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously happy in it."

"Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them."