#happiness

"Frank Lloyd Wright {Couplet} Frank Lloyd Wright eliminated the confining wall,so now when your wife screams at youit sounds like you're in Tammany Hall."

"Seafood My body's just a shell,the world is my oyster ~and I'm getting a whale of appetiteright now for some delicious seafood ."

"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)"

"Poetry Trek: 'To Boldly Go Where No man Has Gone Before' A poet must get into spaceship every dayand launch himself into metaphorical space."

"Love Scars Love leaves more scars than a ten car pile-up ~and nobody's got insurance."

"Frivolous Gossip and Poetry It's just so much frivolous gossip to dwell upon the moral merits of a poet;what should only concern the reader is the merit of his words.Leave moral judgments to the preachers and aesthetic judgments to the critical readers."

"Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!"

"True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand."

"Cookie Cutter Criticism A critic tried to fit my sense of humor in a cookie cutter,but it wouldn't fit his preconceived shape of what comedy should be.So he pressed harder, and harder and harder until the cookie cutter cut a cookie shaperight through the palm of his hand.It doesn't hurt anymore when the critic tries to slap me in the face.There's no more hot-air resistance."

"Clearly the secret of happiness...is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping."

"When in Doubt [10w] If your relationship becomes stagnant,set fire to her dress."

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

"I learned from a very young age that if I persued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness."

"The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up."

"What is God? [17] [10w] God has a fondness for cosmology and carbon-based life forms."

"Happiness comes in many forms — in the company of good friends, in the feeling you get when you make someone else’s dream come true, or in the promise of hope renewed. It’s okay to let yourself be happy because you never know how fleeting that happiness might be."

"A Prayer God, be my light in pitch-black night;Show me the path from wrong to rightThat I might in Your hands be delivered later,Having eclipsed myself to become something greater."

"Who Isn't [10w] Psychotherapy's powerless once you assume you're smarter than the therapist."

"When you let go of past pain, believe in yourself, and follow your dreams—you can find true happiness!"

"my child, if you want to have a beautiful and happy life... 2 things you need... learn the art of love and practice it with your beloved one."