#happiness

"Siesta Mud tracked from the rice fields blazon a pathFrom kitchen to cellar escaping noon’s wrath.A quiet siesta to break the ordealOf scything and sifting and spinning the wheel.Half a dream later he returns to the fieldTo seeding earth’s furrows. massaging its yield.And when Sun descends gravely back to her tombHe tracks back to the kitchen, the cellar, his room."

"...is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it."

"Knowledgeable [10w] The knowledgeable man inventoried and catalogued everything he doesn't know."

"Your Poem A poem is a waking dream.If your poem is shit,then it was a fucking nightmare."

"Enough [10w] Enough's the only thing most people can't get enough of."

"Melting Icicles Haiku Drip, drip, Drip, drip, Drip:Sounds of melting iciclesannouncing the Spring"

"How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success."

"Doldrums People who live in the doldrumscan't throw caution to the wind."

"Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who stop to consider the antithesis; that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable."

"They'd Rather Switch [10w] Hearing is wasted on the blind;sight, on the deaf."

"Imitation [10w] Art imitates life.Life imitates art.I just imitate imitation."

"I hate going through this when we just found...,"his voice trailed off."Found what?""Each other,"he finished, half-smiling."

"[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well."

"Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity."

"The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)"

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

"Deadly Sex Haiku Each thrust of his cockwas another coffin nailhammered in my heart."

"Happiness is the pleasantest of emotions; because of this, it is the most dangerous. Having once felt happiness, one will do anything to maintain it, and losing it, one will grieve."

"Kraft Macaroni & Cheese: It's the cheesiest... ...advertising slogan ever!"

"JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide."