happiness

"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."

"Happiness comes from within. It is not dependent on external things or on other people. You become vulnerable and can be easily hurt when your feelings of security and happiness depend on the behavior and actions of other people. Never give your power to anyone else."

"The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea."

"In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail."

"Taking a risk to survive isn’t that impressive. Taking a risk to be happy, that takes guts."

"Happiness had never been like this before. Now it came like sun showers, the sun and the rain together. Happiness was happier than it had been - sharp, piercing, and snatched, like a breath while swimming in surf."

"You know, people ask me. They say 'Dan, three years later do you really want to be drawing cat whiskers on your face?' but they don't understand. The cat whiskers, they come from within."

"Future is one of the wildest experiences that you will ever have."

"Happy are those who evolve from within."

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

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."

"Today, many will choose to live free of conditions and rules governing their own happiness. Why not you? Do not let another day go by where your dedication to other people's opinions is greater than your dedication to your own emotions! Today's a new day!"

"Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination."

"She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy."

"My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me."

"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a daily basis."

"Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around."

"I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places."

"There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children's rooms - when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead."

"Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star."