happiness

"There is no greater power than that of a laugh and happiness is a force which can save a person from the horrors of the world."

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

"Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others."

"We are all doomed to seek our own happiness; we can't help ourselves. We are all, the cruel and the gentle alike, condemned to seeking that happiness in the dark. We use our need as the blind use a walking stick, to determine the safety of every forward step."

"Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability."

"Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more."

"A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness."

"To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind."

"If you're not getting happier as you get older, then you're fuckin' up"

"It is not where we are that matters nor what we have, it is what we do with where we are and what we have."

"What is given to you is what is needed; what you want, requires giving up what you don't need."

"Happiness [is] only real when shared"

"As I watch him, a sudden recognition comes over me: Tonight, I can be anyone I want… maybe being happy only means living in the moment, appreciating the exact moment you're in and not thinking about the worries of the future."

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

"That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!"

"No medicine cures what happiness cannot."

"Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy."

"The pretty ones are usually unhappy. They expect everyone to be enamored of their beauty. How can a person be content when their happiness lies in someone else's hands, ready to be crushed at any moment? Ordinary-looking people are far superior, because they are forced to actually work hard to achieve their goals, instead of expecting people to fall all over themselves to help them."

"An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me..."

"... too much brooding, not enough doing."