happiness

"The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth."

"Maybe this is a characteristic of happy people. An ability to be entertained by the world."

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

"Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe."

"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."

"You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life."

"It is more important to be free than to be happy."

"Call no man happy until he is dead."

"I may never be happy, but tonight I am content."

"She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy."

"And from the midst of cheerless gloomI passed to bright unclouded day."

"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a daily basis."

"Hurt is a part of life. To be honest, I think hurt is a part of happiness, that our definition of happiness has gotten very narrow lately, very nervous, a little afraid of this brawling, fabulous, unpredictable world."

"For a woman to deny the necessity of true love in her life would be to deny herself, and her creator."

"You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does"

"An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy."

"Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently."

"And hard times are good in their own way, too. Because the only way you can achieve true happiness is if you experience true sadness as well. It's all about light and shade. Balance."

"I know money isn't everything. but it certainly is something."

"It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream."