#happiness

"I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect."

"Even when in the midst of disturbance, the stillness of the mind can offer sanctuary."

"Object of Desire A woman knows she's the object of a unknown man's desirelike a game animal becoming aware it is being looked at."

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy."

"Doing the tough things sets winners apart from losers."

"The strength of a man isn't seen in the power of his arms. It's seen in the love with which he EMBRACES you."

"Bespeckled Heroes [10w] Great heroes in 100 years become statues speckled with birdshit."

"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."

"Say This to Her/Him and Just See What Happens... *I want to kiss you in places I've never kissed you before."

"I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it."

"Comparison is the thief of joy."

"Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling"

"Patience [10w] Patience is the most technologically advanced form of energy efficiency."

"Garden [10w] A garden is a poem written with flowers on earth."

"Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two."

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

"Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour"of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!"

"California Haiku "After my boob jobI'm taking acting lessons.Fuck's fifty, no anal."

"We can't be so desperate for love that we forget where we can always find it; within."

"Is anyone anywhere happy?"