happiness

"In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of even greater importance."

"Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression."

"Suffering teaches joy."

"I learned from a very young age that if I persued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness."

"Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels."

"Hearts will break and people will hurt you, darling.” Her mother said. “But when you let those people control your outlook on the life, you only allow them to have a greater hold on your happiness. Once you accept the fact that every day is a new day to begin again, life becomes a much easier path to walk."

"An important decision I made was to resist playing the Blame Game. The day I realized that I am in charge of how I will approach problems in my life, that things will turn out better or worse because of me and nobody else, that was the day I knew I would be a happier and healthier person. And that was the day I knew I could truly build a life that matters."

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

"People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t"

"I want him to be happy. And I want you to be happy, too. Even if you can only find that happiness without me."

"The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy for yourself and yourself."

"It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others"

"You can't buy happiness"

"You can be happy with money and you can be wretched with it. It depends on what kind of person you are. -- A Prologue to Love"

"Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude."

"I NEVER UNDERSTOOD THE POINT OF BEING SADWHEN I COULD CHOOSE TO BE HAPPY"

"There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy."

"Joy came always after pain."

"So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?"

"I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone."