happiness

"Pure joy is rare. That’s why for every meal I eat a really bloody steak."

"I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve."

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

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

"There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another more unhappiness, and the same circumstance may produce widely different effects on individuals of different temperaments."

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

"Money can't buy happiness, but it certainly is a stress reliever."

"Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)"

"Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't. It's like learning a foreign language: You can think about the words all you want, but you'll never be able to speak it until you suck up your courage and say them out loud."

"There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears."

"The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H."

"I used to float along in all of this, like a leaf on a coursing stream, but i am heavier now, less easily moved, more resolute and steadfast. I am no longer in pursuit of happiness. As I stand here at my front door, key in hand, I think it is just possible that happiness, at least for now, today, this hour, may be in pursuit of me."

"As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of absence."

"Happily Single"is recognizing that you don’t need or want to be rescued from your life by a handsome prince because your life is pretty awesome, as is."

"I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh."

"What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it?"

"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."

"Perhaps some people really are born unhappy. I surely hope not. Speaking for my sister and myself: We were born with the capacity and determination to be utterly happy all the time. Perhaps even in this we were freaks. Hi ho."

"The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards."

"I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.Brian Sibley: Or brains even?Oh gosh, yes, brains is one of the least. You can be a lovely person without brains, absolutely lovely. Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind.If you're kind that's it."