happiness

"You have to be willing to get happy about nothing."

"Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory."

"...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying."

"It was not in me It came and wentI wanted to hold it It was held by wine(I no longer know what it was)"

"I want that. I want that awful intense and serious unhappiness, cos then I might feel better, and then I might be happy."

"Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope."

"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."

"Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others."

"If you look for perfection, you'll never be content."

"One swallow does not make a summer,neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy."

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

"Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is only a formality. Without that faith, I suppose, they might never start. Somewhere on the way they lift their eyes to the summit and know they aren't going to reach it; and happiness then is looking down and enjoying the view they've got, not envying the one they haven't."

"There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes."

"In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate."

"it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings."

"You will realize one day that all the money in the world cannot buy you happiness. Nor can it make you a person of good character."

"It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations."

"Mother earth cried so much that she has pool of tears more than the land of happiness."

"When we give up the chase, we give up our wishing."

"Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible."