#happiness

"Success does not mean happiness. Check out any celebrity magazine to look for examples to disabuse you of thinking that being beautiful, successful or rich will make you happy."

"No one asked you to be happy. Get to work."

"You are so intense. Like a storm. It's shocking how intense you are."

"Coins [10w] Statesmen whose faces are on coins are amenable to change."

"A Cosmic Ordering beginning makes a wealthy ending."

"Break All the Rules of Poetry Place no limits on your poetry.Live a little.Break all the fucking rules!If it comes deep from the wellsprings of your imagination,the woolgathering of dreamers ~it is poetry ~no matter what anyone says."

"Kansas Haiku "Ya' know Superman'sfrom here and Jor-El could'vesent him to New York."

"Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day."

"You are the ruler of my heart. There is no measure greater than this."

"Follow your heart. It will lead you to where you need to be."

"If you are a dreamer, come in,If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer...If you're a pretender, come sit by my fireFor we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in!Come in!"

"Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war."

"When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away."

"At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel."

"Many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they look for a place to dump it. And if you let them, they’ll dump it on you. So when someone wants to dump on you, don’t take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Believe me. You’ll be happier."

"River Mountain Ocean [10w] + [10w] + {Couplet} Rivers delight in their flow;Mountains savor their snow.But oceans are in concurrencetheir contentment comes from recurrence."

"Don’t dare to dream big, just dream BIG!"

"You can forget trying to climb the success ladder, all you will ever need in life is brought to you in the Cosmic Ordering elevator."

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

"My Brooklyn Childhood [10w] "Motherfucker! I gotta put more goddamn change in the swear-jar."