happiness

"Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels."

"So he caught her in his arms and kissed her, and they were very happy, and told each other what a beautiful world it was, and how wonderful it was that they should have found each other, seeing that the world is not only beautiful but rather large."

"May those who follow their fate be granted happiness; may those who defy it be granted glory"

"Much of what we called "depression"was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for."

"Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean."

"Work harder to appreciate your ordinary day."

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

"And I don't believe in such a thing as "happily ever after". There's only happily every now and then. I find the hardest trick is to recognize the now-and-thens, and to bask in them when they come. Happiness is a choice we make, like how to wear our hair, or having coffee with breakfast and tea at night."

"Happiness is something we reap from the seeds we sow. Plant misery seeds and that us what you reap."

"Blaming is so much easier than taking responsibility, because if you take responsibility … then you might be to blame."

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

"Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious."

"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness."

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

"Helping others is the secret sauce to a happy life."

"Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness."

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

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

"I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air. or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep."

"Try to be happy within the context of the life we are actually living. Happiness is not a situation to be longed for or a convergence of lucky happenstance. Through the power of our own minds, we can help ourselves."