happiness

"The dead don't desire revenge, but the happiness of the livng. To dirty your small hands would bring joy to no one.-Kenshin to Eiji"

"Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem."

"Doing the tough things sets winners apart from losers."

"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times."

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

"People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself."

"Before you can successfully make friends with others, first you have to become your own friend."

"Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You cannot be happy. Because, you poor darling baby, you believe them."

"I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories, my knowledge of my mother would be faded and soft, with a few sharp memories standing out."

"Sometimes pain is so unmanageable that the idea of spending another day with it seems impossible. Other times pain acts as a compass to help you get through the messier tunnels of growing up. But the pain can only help you find happiness if you can remember it."

"A woman laughing is a woman conquered."

"I wished upon a star and the heavens sent me you"

"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."

"I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him."

"No one invites you to the top - you have to claw your way up. When you get there, you will sit with the others who were also uninvited - giggling."

"HopeSmiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'..."

"The best parts of life are the things we can't plan. And it's a lot harder to find happiness if you're only searching in one place. Sometimes, you just have to throw away the map. Admit that you don't know where you're going and stop pressuring yourself to figure it out. Besides...a map is a life someone else already lived. It's more fun to make your own."

"I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy."

"Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important."

"It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything."