happiness

"If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suffering. A happy or unhappy life is your own creation. Nobody else is responsible. If you remember this, you won’t find fault with anybody. You are your own best friend as well as your worst enemy. (99)"

"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."

"Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear"

"When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything."

"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."

"The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy."

"A woman's happiness is in throwing everything away to live for love."

"A week feels like a year when you’re seventeen and in love. A twenty minute drive might as well be an ocean. But we were together again and the whole world was rejoicing, even the gravel crunched melodiously under our feet as we danced onward through the night."

"Sometimes you get everything you ever wanted, only it doesn't look like what you wanted anymore."

"I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I’m not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I’m not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks."

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

"Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends."

"Stop wasting your time looking for the key to happiness… the door is open and unlocked… just walk through it."

"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."

"I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit."

"Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens"

"Share your love, share you happiness, care for others; your wealth will be endless."

"Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling."

"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)"

"Happiness had never been like this before. Now it came like sun showers, the sun and the rain together. Happiness was happier than it had been - sharp, piercing, and snatched, like a breath while swimming in surf."