#happiness

"I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him."

"The happiness of a family is such a complex matter. Like a table laid out with a tea service, it looks so ordinary until it's threatened. Then it becomes infinitely precious."

"Flattery [10w] Flattery is the only passport that will get you everywhere"

"I've never been afraid of them. Not once. Because I had you."

"It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy."

"What's in it for me?' A selfish person doesn't become compassionate as the result of some words of wisdom or epiphany. The selfish need selfish reasons to act unselfish."

"They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning."

"Nature's Prayer [10w] + {Couplet} Trees gesticulate in morning prayer;wind circulates with cleansing air."

"Laugh, and the world laughs with you;Weep, and you weep alone;For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,But has trouble enough of its own."

"Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)"

"Knowledge vs. Wisdom [10w] + [10w] Knowledge is the understanding that you are what you eat. Wisdom is not eating a pussy with hair on it."

"The Poet's Disease My body atrophies.My mind swells.Imagination's become my crutch."

"I let all that anger and worry go because they don't belong to me any more than the future does. And I don't wanna feel them anyhow, because the truth is, whatever happens when this war ends, here and now, far from Richmond County, I'm freer than I've ever been."

"If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song."

"Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!"

"Hope for the Heartbroken A broken heartremains in piecesbut learns to love againwith every fragment."

"Babel [10w] Building a tower to reach God doesn't require any bricks."

"There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations"

"Enmity Enmity is the soul of shit."

"You must remember this feeling, Jon.The feeling of being happy. It doesn't happen often but when it does, you must grab it with both hands and hold it close. Let it overwhelm you. Don'tover analyse any emotion. But remember it. Always remember it."