happiness

"Destroying things is much easier than making them."

"The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion."

"Your life begins to change the day you take responsibility for it."

"If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy."

"All things, even the deepest sorrow or the most profound happiness are all temporary. Hope is fuel for the soul, without hope, forward motion ceases."

"A woman laughing is a woman conquered."

"I think instead [of happiness] we should be working for contentment... an inner sense of fulfillment that's relatively independent of external circumstances."

"Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get"

"Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration."

"I was happy anywhere I could see the ocean."

"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same."

"Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age."

"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe."

"It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own."

"And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink."

"Success is getting what you want..Happiness is wanting what you get."

"Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now.Let it teach you Being.Let it teach you integrity — which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real.Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem."

"The secret to happiness is low expectations."

"When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved."

"please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you."