happiness

"Happy are those who evolve from within."

"The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it."

"The universe doesn't give you what you want in your mind; it gives you what you demand with your actions."

"Happy girls are the prettiest"

"Sometimes I think if we didn’t have these problems the whole world would stop spinning on her axis, we’d all stop spinning on our axises, axes, or whatever you want to call them, and then we’d have to settle into the nasty business of finding a way to be happy."

"The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is."

"Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's."

"I learned from a very young age that if I persued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness."

"Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine."

"It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others"

"Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection."

"Happiness,... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is sharing in Eternity."

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

"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."

"Mara, that's the life I want to give you. That's what I'm offering you. I want to fill you life with color and warmth. I want to fill it with light. Give me a chance"

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

"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."

"Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives."

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

"One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno."