happiness

"Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace'One grand boulevard with treeswith one grand cafe in sunwith strong black coffee in very small cups.One not necessarily very beautifulman or woman who loves you.One fine day."

"Tatsuya: What you have "right now"won't necessarily continue on until forever...Hiro: ... Yeah, I know."

"The secret of happiness: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it."

"Here, also, the future was cried aloud by the wind through the rocks, so that all those who heard would shiver, and then the liquid spring song of the thrush would make all the beauty of moonlight and sunlight blend together, making it true, so true, that happiness must come again"

"One could be happy not only without love, but despite it."

"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired."

"Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things."

"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy."

"Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude."

"Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It’s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it."

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

"Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain."

"This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy."

"That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another...."

"The best way to insure you achieve the greatest satisfaction out of life is to behave intentionally."

"Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile."

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

"As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of Eros that when he is in us we had rather share unhappiness with the Beloved than be happy on any other terms."

"Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace."

"We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory."