#happiness

"Love is trembling happiness."

"We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory."

"There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time."

"The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased."

"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!"

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

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

"When you fail, that is when you get closer to success."

"People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weather if you're fortunate. But happiness is the result of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly."

"There's More Than Two Choices [10w] Don't take the road less traveled;blaze your own path."

"Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely."

"Self-Contempt [10w] Self-contempt is calling yourself collect and refusing to accept the charges."

"Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths."

"It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy."

"Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own."

"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."

"There's always a free lunch with Cosmic Ordering."

"I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all."

"You will be your best self when you take time to understand what you really need, feel and want."

"When we have reached the depths of despair, only then can we look up and see the light of hope."