#happiness

"She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration the first time she saw him outfitted in his dress blues."

"Party Hat [10w] Circus clowns, Frenchmen, and sanitation workers look better in party-hats.."

"Rat-Race [10w] There’s no refuge for creatures opting out of the rat-race."

"Life is so precious! Live with love, joy, happiness, and abundance."

"Family {Couplet} For my misery, family brings relief,tripling my joy, halving my grief.This aesthetic arithmetic's quite poetic,an accounting surmounting odds unsympathetic.Now there seems no hardship I cannot withstand,accompanied by my exponential, familial band."

"Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values."

"Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving."

"The AP Stylebook is Useless {Couplet} I can't abbreviate abbreviation nor know how to initialize an acronym,I can find the contraction for contraction nor the précis for a homonym."

"I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else."

"Bridges [10w] Bridges are overpasses for commuters and roofs for the homeless."

"Relatively Speaking [10w] The irony about 'relativism theories' is that they're relative too."

"Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated."

"Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it’s exciting, and if you do it every day it’s exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just almost every day, it’s not good any more."

"How can I tell Bob that my happiness streams from having wrenched a piece out of my life, a piece of hurt and beauty, and transformed it to typewritten words on paper? How can he know I am justifying my life, my keen emotions, my feeling, by turning it into print?"

"BMW: The ultimate driving machine... ...just like our gas chambers were the ultimate killing machines."

"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."

"I surround myself with things that make me happy. Why? Because ... it makes me happy."

"What is God? (60) [10w] God's always the correct answer once you rephrase the question."

"[F]or just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever."

"Publisher's Persuasion "You're much too good a writer to want a six figure advance. You don't want your readers to think you're only writing for money ~ do you?"