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We are souls, eternal and perfect, captains of our mystic ships: gods and goddesses of our universe. We are beautiful, we pearls of grit. We, the ember of everything. Our uniqueness IS what makes us special, and the expression of it is our gift to the rest of us. In order to feel happy and fulfilled, we must honour our own personal brand of creativity... let it out into the world... BE who we came here to BE.
— Angie karan
A felicidade nunca é graciosa.Happiness is never gracious.
— Aldous Huxley
One honest John Tompkins, a hedger & ditcher, Although he was poor, did not want to be richer;For all such vain wishes in him were preventedBy a fortunate habit of being contented.
— Jane Taylor
I guess everybody thinks about old times, even the happiest people.
— Willa Cather, My Ántonia
Why wait for your happiness to come from your future blessings, when this moment already has all you need to live happily?
To be happy is to be a little bit sad for it is the negative that balances the positive. What is the use of being happy if there is no sadness?
— I a Night Owl
I’m not good enough for Duke.” “I’m good enough for you.
— Feng Nong, จอมนางคู่บัลลังก์ 1
Because what’s lifeWithout happinessAnd where’s happinessWithout risk
— Dennis Sharpe, Hole in the World
When a Wanderess has been caged, or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, She lives most heroic, smiling with ruby, moistened lips once her cup of Death is welcome sipped.
— Roman Payne
In an established love of reading there is a policy of insurance guaranteeing certain happiness till death.
— A. Edward Newton, End Papers: Literary Recreations
I am responsible for my own existence and happiness.
— Nathaniel Branden, Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
... there was no need for him to hasten towards the attainment of a happiness already captured and held in a safe place, which would not escape his grasp again.
— Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
When you choose your own way, you lose your happiness
— Sunday Adelaja
People don't get to choose their family, but if you have the family you would choose - that's happiness.
— Lina Dimitrova
Trying to please everybody is what you'll soon get tired of, because as time goes on, those you're pleasing will get tired of you.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
she slammed the door andwas gone.I looked at the closed doorand at the doorknoband strangelyI didn't feelalone.
— Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
You are the ruler of my heart. There is no measure greater than this.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Never surrender to you're passions. Dream and live to excess.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
The more material we lose, the less we have. The less we have, the more we win.
— Anthony Liccione
Be thankful for a breath of fresh air to be alive and well. Allow love and happiness to penetrate throughout your mind and soul. Take time to relax and live in the moment, the now, the present. Enjoy today.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Totally present in this moment for you.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
One thing I have come to realize is that love is not always happiness.
— Jerhia
In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity. To me, who have not only refused offers, because I thought them improper, but have declined rewards I might with reputation have accepted, it is no wonder that meanness and imposition appear disgustful. Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
— Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
If you behave in a manner that poisons your relationship, don’t be surprised when it dies.
— Steve Maraboli
There is no higher happiness than peace.
— Jack Kornfield, The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace
Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its little care. Yesterday you were trembling for the health of one who is dear to you, today you fear for your own; tomorrow it will be an anxiety about money, the next day the slanders of a calumniator, the day after the misfortune of a friend; then the weather, then something broken or lost, then a pleasure for which you are reproached by your conscience or your vertebral column; another time, the course of public affairs. Not to mention heartaches. And so on. One cloud is dissipated, another gathers. Hardly one day in a hundred of unbroken joy and sunshine. And you are of that small number who are lucky! As for other men, stagnant night is upon them.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
If you want more joy in your daily life, smile at the people you meet in the street, the woman sitting beside you on the bus or standing next to you in the queue at the airport, the waiter who brings your food, your colleagues or your employer. There’s a great chance they’ll smile back.
— Thorbjörg Hafsteinsdottir, 10 Years Younger in 10 Weeks
And me, standing under the splintered night, catching fractured glimpses into the black behind the black, hearing the prayers of stars, the angry whispers of the dark summer night.Its voice cracks,on your name.My eyes close,on your name.
— Marlen Komar, Ugly People Beautiful Hearts
We can learn to act and think in ways that sow seeds of our future well-being, gradually becoming more aware of what causes happiness as well as what causes distress.
— Pema Chödrön, The Pocket Pema Chodron
You know what I love? The spaces between I love you. The tap of your fork against the plate and how my cup of wine clicks against our table. The scratchy voice coming from the radio in the other room. The quiet sound of your hand reaching across the table and whispering over mine. How your voice sounds like your mouth on the back of my neck. The soft murmur of our easy conversation.Between these quiet Tuesday night routines, following every comma and right after every pause for breath, is I, love, and you. In the middle of every I love you is a sink full of dishes, whisper of socked feet tangled in white sheets, and gentle kisses against curved cheeks. We lyric ourselves into the laundry that needs to be finished, into the ends of every smile that follows me repeating your name. We write ourselves into the grocery bags we need to carry, the cracks running up our rented walls, the sides of the bed we choose to drag up the sails of heavy eyed dreams.Like the spaces between our fingers, in the spaces between I, love, and you, we wait.The in-betweens have always been my favorite.
— Marlen Komar, Ugly People Beautiful Hearts
Everything that God sends us is beautiful, even though we may not understand it - and we only need to give it some proper thought to see that what God gives is just sheer happiness; the suffering is what we add to it.
— Adalbert Stifter, The Bachelors
You solely owe success and happiness to yourself. So why not make your inner-self proud of your daily decisions and actions?
Wearing fake happiness is as good as smearing foundation. A bit of moisture drains it all.
— Aniruddha Sastikar
When your sense of self and happiness comes from within and isn't a roller coaster ride dependent on others or circumstances, you approach life differently. You make better choices. You draw to you the people and situations that matter. The others, they fall away.
— Kamal Ravikant, Live Your Truth
Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness and the happiness of others.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
I must be happy, he said, it is less pleasant than I should have thought.
— Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies
Yes: I exist inside my body.I’m not carrying the sun and the moon in my pocket.I don’t want to conquer worlds because I slept badly,And I don’t want to eat the world for breakfast because I have a stomach.Indifferent?No: a son of the earth, who, if he jumps, it’s wrong,A moment in the air that’s not for us,And only happy when his feet hit the ground again,Pow! In reality where nothing’s missing!(6/20/1919)
— Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
You have to appreciate where you have come from to know who you are in the present and whom you would like to be in the future.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Hope is a dream of which we long to have. Don't let anyone ever tell you that you can't hope for something because hope brings joy and joy brings happiness and its all tied up in a big ball of love.
— Peace Gypsy, Souls Deep
The happiest people don’t bother about whether life is unfair. They just concentrate on what they have.
— Andrew Matthews, Happiness in Hard Times
The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in joy, you don't live for yourself alone. Live for others too!
— Israelmore Ayivor
I am who I am because the tears of my past have watered the magnificence of my present.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Loving my son, building my son, touching my son, playing with my son, being with my son… these aren’t tasks that only super dads can perform. These are tasks that every dad should perform. Always. Without fail.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
— Dale Carnegie
We all need something that takes us out of day to day and reminds us that it's all ok."
— Ian Tucker, Your Simple Path - Find Happiness in every step.
Meditation makes us happier!
— Mia Randall
When you are stressed on mind...to pour it out, is the behaviour, most kind!
— Sujit Lalwani, Life Simplified!
The joy from eating does not come from the exclusivity of the food, but instead from the sensitivity that we eat it with.
— Nino Gruettke, BOTH of You: Behavior. Opinion. Thinking. Happiness - The more rational we are, the more emotional we can be.
The sage is sick of being sick (Tao Te Ching)
— Robert Baohm, Real Happiness Challenge
It’s that short-lived happiness, which empowers us to bear; long-lasting pain in living.
— Aniruddha Sastikar
Happiness is a gift which is priceless,You can only receive itif you can give it....
— Adil Adam Memon
Eve was happy for her bestie. She just wished she had a guy who would look at her the way Seth looked at her friend, eyes all starry.No, that wasn't it. Or it wasn't completely it. Eve knew there were guys at school who liked her and would give her the Seth-look if she gave them the opportunity. But she didn't want the look from any of those guys. She wanted the look she could give the look back to. She wanted to find a guy she could all-out love who would all-out love her back.
— Amy Meredith, Fever
Vronsky saw nothing and no one. He felt himself as a king, not because she had made an impression on Anna-he did not yet believe that-but because the impression she had made on him gave him happiness and pride.
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
No child should ever be too sad to play.
— Andrew Galasetti, These Colors Don't Run
...look with-in (Jesus)
— Robert Baohm, Real Happiness Challenge
Nobody can give you happiness than yourself.
— Jared Nyairo Onduso
To be happy in absolute terms, along with our happiness, all the world must be happy so that we don’t have to worry for anyone!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Live happily thinking about those millions of good people god blessed you with not about the one person he took away from you. :)There is a reason behind every decision god makes. And in the end he plans to make you anything but happy :)
— Chhavi Joshi
In a beautiful morning, walking barefoot to the work through the green fields with the company of the singing birds... and there you shall meet the real happiness!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I've been quite happy. Look, here are my proofs. Remember that I am indifferent to discomforts which would harass other folk. What do the circumstances of life matter if your dreams make you lord paramount of time and space?
— W. Somerset Maugham
The truth will set you free (The Bible)
— Robert Baohm, Real Happiness Challenge
Pero me sobran motivos para ser feliz. Sobre todo cuando estoy en los brazos de mis tres misses. Son tres gentiles damas a las que se llega cuando las cosas adquieren una claridad inusitada: Miss Antropía, Miss Oginia y Miss Eria; pero no las comparto, como hago con el resto de mis mujeres.
— Eusebio Ruvalcaba, Una mosca devastada y deprimida sobreviviendo en un hilito de sangre
They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.
— Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome
The law of sacrifice postulates that we need to give in order to receive ... Cosmic Ordering says, receive before you give.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
I am wealth, I am abundance, I am Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Connection: Change your life within minutes!
Cosmic Ordering does not judge you.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
Good thoughts can become reality with Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Connection: Change your life within minutes!
With Cosmic Ordering you can keep your luxuries and ask for more.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
With Cosmic Ordering life is a field of unlimited possibilities.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Connection: Change your life within minutes!
Riches will come when you follow Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
Anyone believing in Cosmic Ordering wants for nothing.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
Cosmic Ordering will never forsake you.
— Stephen Richards, The Ultimate 10 Minute Chakra Clearing
Cosmic Ordering is absent in body but present in spirit.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
Believe all things are possible With Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Connection: Change your life within minutes!
Si quieres que tus deseos duren, tienes que pedir algo que te haga feliz y no la felicidad.
— Jackson Pearce, As You Wish
Cosmic Ordering is with you in all that you do.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
Silver surfers ... nah, that's old hat. Retire a gold surfer with Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
If you have made mistakes in life there’s always another chance with Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Connection: Change your life within minutes!
The universe is full of magical things to be manifested with Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
Cosmic Ordering cultivates prosperity daily.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
If there was no Cosmic Ordering then it would have been necessary to invent it.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
In Cosmic Ordering, we put our trust
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
It’s payday every day of the week with Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
There are more triumphs than defeats with Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
Failure is a detour on the way to using Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
Whatever one does, someone is always happy...then again, someone else is not pleased
— ArLeaBelle
The key to failure is ignoring Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards
If you say you can't, you won't!The only thing holding you back from success is yourself.
— Jody Provost, Hitty and Her Next Hundred Years
Forget being a bad failure, use Cosmic Ordering and be good at success.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
Failure is a steppingstone to poverty, Cosmic Ordering is an elevator to success.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Connection: Change your life within minutes!
The only secret of wealth creation is knowing how to use Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
Human beings are incredibly slow, Cosmic Ordering is incredibly fast!
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Connection: Change your life within minutes!
Some people only dream of success… while others wake up and use Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Connection: Change your life within minutes!
The greatest barrier to wealth creation is the denial of Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
The grass withers, the flower fades, but Cosmic Ordering stands forever.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
The mode by which the impossible is reached is Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
Cosmic Ordering – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking your potential.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
Panic, fear, worry, doubt, negativity ... words not recognized by Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
There’s the impossible and then there’s Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
To fail is a natural consequence of trying, to succeed is a natural consequence of Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
With Cosmic Ordering it’s not only your wealth that grows, your mind does too!
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
To make Cosmic Ordering work you have to start using it.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
Cosmic Ordering success sticks to you like mud to a blanket.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
You can forget trying to climb the success ladder, all you will ever need in life is brought to you in the Cosmic Ordering elevator.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Connection: Change your life within minutes!
Forget the secrets of success, use Cosmic Ordering instead.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
Whatever your desire, use Cosmic Ordering to get what you require!
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
A Cosmic Ordering beginning makes a wealthy ending.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
In the beginning man was poor, then along came Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
Lessen the odds are stacked against you, Use Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Connection: Change your life within minutes!
A clever person solves a problem
—  a wise person uses Cosmic Ordering!
When you have done your best and still failed, use Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
Don’t just wish you were rich, use Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
Twenty years from now you will be disappointed you never used Cosmic Ordering today.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
Everybody talks about being rich, Cosmic Ordering does something about it.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
You didn’t fail, you just didn’t use Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
A man may fail many times, and then he turns to Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Connection: Change your life within minutes!
Often the only difference between success and failure is not using Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
To fail is nothing, unless you continue to ignore Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
On the road to success some will always expect tragedy ... ditch your doubts and experience success with Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Connection: Change your life within minutes!
Time is a great teacher, but Cosmic Ordering is a great provider.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
Just a minute, Cosmic Ordering can give you a whole lot more ... a whole lifetime of more.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
Time is priceless, Cosmic Ordering is limitless.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
There is no eleventh hour with Cosmic Ordering, only the golden hour.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
If your only goal is to become rich then use Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Connection: Change your life within minutes!
Don’t let time make a fool of you, use Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
If you want to be on Forbes Rich List, use Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
What might have been can be with Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
No more need to rob Peter to pay Paul with Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
Wealth creation is 10% of what you know and 90% Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
Cosmic Ordering is like an echo! What you ask for comes back.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
Rome wasn’t built in a day, but that's because they never used Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
The great dividing line between success and failure is Cosmic Ordering
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
Defeat the warriors of patience and time with Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
With Cosmic Ordering, the best days of your life are always ahead of you.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
Forget about letting nature taking its course to make you wealthy, Cosmic Ordering works faster.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
Hope might grant you a wish in the nick of time, Cosmic Ordering grants them all the time.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
Time is the wisest counselor of all, but Cosmic Ordering is the biggest provider.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
Wealth is a by-product of Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
Change your life! Wake up and smell the Cosmic Ordering success.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
Don’t wait for success, use Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Connection: Change your life within minutes!
Believe and achieve with Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Connection: Change your life within minutes!
All in good time is something Cosmic Ordering does not follow.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
The fastest way to double your money is to use Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Connection: Change your life within minutes!
Don’t waste time making money ... use Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
Forget hard work, use Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
Now you can build Rome in a day with Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
OK you maybe can't buy happiness with Cosmic Ordering, but it's much better crying in a mansion than in a hovel.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
Wake up and smell the wealth with Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
Cosmic Ordering is your one way ticket to prosperity.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime.
— J.G. Ballard
...because all happiness is contagious, and disarms the spirit of hatred.
— Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française
Tomorrow will never call to ask your opinion
—  you don't control it. Stop allowing today's possibilities to be robbed by tomorrow's insecurities.
One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
Your life isn't behind you
—  your memories are behind you. Your life is ALWAYS ahead of you. Today is a new day - seize it!
Never been more truthful then right now, looking at you fixes everything.
— Holly Hood
There's always a free lunch with Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
Use Cosmic Ordering now, not as a morning after pill.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
If you weren’t born with a silver spoon in your mouth, use Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
— allan chaimers
When all around you are losing their heads, use Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
Take a rain check on poverty with Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, The Cosmic Ordering Service
When life gives you lemons, use Cosmic Ordering!
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
Sick of lame ducks, use Cosmic Ordering and your ducks will lay golden eggs.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
The first law of attraction is use Cosmic Ordering now.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
With Cosmic Ordering you can count your chickens before they have hatched.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
When you use Cosmic Ordering you will move from cloud nine to cloud ten.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
With Cosmic Ordering you will never eat humble pie again.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
Yo no nací dichoso. De niño, mi himno favorito era: «Cansado del mundo y con el peso de mis pecados». A los cinco años yo pensaba que si había de vivir setenta no había pasado aún más que la catorceava parte de mi vida vital, y me parecía casi insoportable la enorme cantidad de aburrimiento que me aguardaba. En la adolescencia la vida me era odiosa, y estaba continuamente al borde del suicidio, del cual me libré gracias al deseo de saber más matemáticas. Hoy, por el contrario, gusto de la vida, y casi estoy por decir que cada año que pasa la encuentro más gustosa. Esto es debido, en parte, a haber descubierto cuáles eran las cosas que deseaba más y haber adquirido gradualmente muchas de ellas. En parte es debido también a haberme desprendido, felizmente, de ciertos deseos (la adquisición del conocimiento indudable acerca de algo) como esencialmente inasequibles. Pero en la mayor parte se debe a la preocupación, cada día menor, de mí mismo.
— Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
Have fun life is better that way.
— Rebecca Stebbins
Cosmic Ordering is a licence to print money.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
Cosmic Ordering is an ever full piggy bank.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
The proof of the pudding is in the Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
Cosmic Ordering is a dish best served today.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
It’s a red sky every night with Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
Now your boat comes in every day with Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
No need to steal someone’s thunder, with Cosmic Ordering you can make your own.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
Sweep the board with Cosmic Ordering Success.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
Now beggars can be choosers with Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
Stop pointing fingers and placing blame on others. Your life can only change to the degree that you accept responsibility for it.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Why are you unhappy?Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself—and there isn’t one.
— Wei Wu Wei
An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle above the forests and the cold blue lakes, or out over the Mojave Desert, with its weird vegetation and immense vistas. Not very far away are Death Valley, and Yosemite, and Sequoia Forest with its giant trees which were growing long before the Parthenon was built; they are the oldest living things in the world. One should visit such places often, and be conscious, in the midst of the city, of their surrounding presence. For this is the real nature of California and the secret of its fascination; this untamed, undomesticated, aloof, prehistoric landscape which relentlessly reminds the traveller of his human condition and the circumstances of his tenure upon the earth. "You are perfectly welcome," it tells him, "during your short visit. Everything is at your disposal. Only, I must warn you, if things go wrong, don't blame me. I accept no responsibility. I am not part of your neurosis. Don't cry to me for safety. There is no home here. There is no security in your mansions or your fortresses, your family vaults or your banks or your double beds. Understand this fact, and you will be free. Accept it, and you will be happy.
— Christopher Isherwood, Exhumations
The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books
— Theodore Roosevelt
You will have fewer regrets in life if you start focusing and taking responsiblity for where you are and where you want to be.
— Deborah Day
Sex parties, alcohol and drugs lost their appeal to Sven after a while. Music never did, in his continual search for that sober connection--intimacy with one person over a long period of time, as opposed to periods of intimacy with a bunch of random faces.
— Jess C. Scott, SVEN, Incubus Story.02
The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self-preserving and self-benefiting act, but also a generous gift to the world. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
I look at the hundreds of algebra problems facing me in the next three days.And here I thought I’d figured out the equation to my happiness.
— Elizabeth Eulberg, Take a Bow
When I take a break, even just a brief one, the creative energy flows in. Only then do I have anything of value to share with others. Once I recognized this, I stopped feeling guilty about taking time for myself.
— Holly Mosier
I think now that this is the great division between people. There are people who find life hard and those who find it easy. There are those who have a natural, in-built, expectation of happiness, and there are those who feel that happiness is not to be expected: that it is not, in fact, one of the rights of man. Nor, God knows, one of the rights of women.
— Hilary Mantel, An Experiment in Love
Don’t think about happiness. If it doesn’t come, there’s no disappointment; if it does come, it’s a surprise.
— Bolesław Prus
As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's the unhappy ones who create the stories. I'm no longer a story. Happiness has made me fade into real life.
— Charles Baxter, The Feast of Love
Hope finds its fulfillment when nurtured through faith and shared with love.
— Mollie Marti
The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.
— Alain de Botton
Blame is the creed of the disempowered.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth
— Carole Glickfeld, Swimming Toward the Ocean: A Novel
Being truly happy in life involves you feeling more in control of the direction your life is going.
— Deborah Day
count no man happy until he be dead.
— Solon
Happy roads is bunk. Weary roads is right. Get you nowhere fast. That's where I've got—nowhere. Where everyone lands in the end, even if most of the suckers won't admit it.
— Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey Into Night
Connection is life; disconnection, death.
— Deborah Day
Yes - it was happiness she still wanted, and the glimpse she had caught of it made everything else of no account. One by one she had detached herself from the baser possibilities , and she saw that nothing now remained to her but the emptiness of renunciation. "The House of Mirth
— Edith Wharton
i'm too lazy to go find happiness,but i'm sure it will swing by sometime
— Amal Sagheer
The person with the least worry over the compromises he must make is, of course, the person who doesn't compromise.
— Mark Sundeen, The Man Who Quit Money
It was not often that Flay approved of happiness in others.
— Mervyn Peake, The Gormenghast Trilogy
The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?
— Sebastian Faulks, Engleby
(Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.)
— Stanley Cavell, Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage
Toate familiile fericite se aseamănă între ele. Fiecare familie nefericită este nefericită în felul ei.
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Happyish. Well, happyish isn't so bad.''It's the most we can hope for.
— David Nicholls, One Day
But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?
— Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
He brewed his tea in a blue china pot, poured it into a chipped white cup with forget-me-nots on the handle, and dropped in a dollop of honey and cream. He sat by the window, cup in hand, watching the first snow fall. "I am," he sighed deeply, "contented as a clam. I am a most happy man.
— Ethel Pochocki, Wildflower Tea
He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to find it, perhaps, yet in itself that quest had been happier than anything he expected forevermore. Life, it seemed, must be a setting up of props around one - otherwise it was disaster. There was no rest, no quiet. He had been futile in longing to drift and dream, no one drifted except to maelstroms, no one dreamed, without his dreams becoming fantastic nightmares of indecision and regret.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot readThe hunter's waking thoughts.
— W.H. Auden, Collected Poems
There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my brain tells me it is the angle at which two lines prop each other up, the leaning-together from the vertical which produces the false arch. For lack of a keystone, the false arch may be as much as one can expect in this life. Only the very lucky discover the keystone.
— Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
When you feel down and out you must reach up and out--to Spirit! Our strength will only resonate deep within your souls if you open your heart and minds with us.
— Jim Fargiano
It's one thing thinking something and another thing knowing it.
— François Lelord, Hector and the Search for Happiness
And this is not the happiness of a magazine writer who sends in his gay little philosophy of life to the editor for the one paragraph spread in front of the magazine: This is a serious happiness full of doubts and strengths. I wonder if happiness is possible. It is a state of mind, but I'd hate to be a bore all my life, if only because of those I love around me. Happiness can change into unhappiness just for the sake of change.
— Jack Kerouac, Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954
Sonnez, grelots; sonnez, clochettes; sonnez, cloches!Car mon rêve impossible a pris corps et je l’aiEntre mes bras pressé : le Bonheur, cet ailéVoyageur qui de l’Homme évite les approches,- Sonnez grelots; sonnez, clochettes, sonnez, cloches!Le Bonheur a marché côte à côte avec moi;Mais la FATALITÉ ne connaît point de trêve :Le ver est dans le fruit, le réveil dans le rêve,Et le remords est dans l’amour : telle est la loi.- Le Bonheur a marché côte à côte avec moi.
— Paul Verlaine, Poèmes Saturniens
I will not talk of my own happiness,' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?
— Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Marriage is a wonderful invention
—  but then again so is a bicycle repair kit.
Pats cīnies, palīdz, domā, spried un sver,Pats esi kungs, pats laimei – durvis ver!
— Rainis
We need but little learning to live happily.
— Michel de Montaigne
I was uncomfortable enough. I was very uncomfortable, I may say unhappy.
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Happiness is what matters, feeling alive-not art or knowledge or money.
— Marty Rubin
If you can't see a benefit of the challenges in the present, know that you're giving a present to your future." —Bright Side Up: 100 Ways to Be Happier Right Now
— Amy   Spencer
Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on
— Armistead Maupin
Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.
— Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
It's more important to be free than to be happy.
— Tom Robbins, Il fungo magico
To pursue happiness for its own sake is the surest way to lose it.
— George Charles Roche III
The door to heaven is open to us at any time we are willing to accept that we are of absolutely no importance. The bars of our own hell - the “mind-forged manacles” as Blake put it - are our attempts to justify ourselves or prove our self-worth. Accept that none of this matters and we can see that heaven is all around us. It is there in a child’s smile, in the rain that waters the earth, even in the maggots that rise in new life from dead meat. All around us is evidence that life and love are eternal and unbroken by strife and suffering.
— Aussiescribbler, How to be Free
Sharing is caring.
— Asraa Abdelqader
disputing nothing is the first step through the difficult door of happiness
— Padgett Powell, You & I
Life is a journey worth making.
— Pandora Gray
She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself.
— Jane Austen, Persuasion
…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.
— Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.
— Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us.
— Ayn Rand, Anthem
No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community. The possibility it offers of displacing a large amount of libidinal components, whether narcissistic, aggressive or even erotic, on to professional work and on to the human relations connected with it lends it a value by no means second to what it enjoys as something indispensible to the preservation and justification of existence in society. Professional activity is a source of special satisfaction if it is a freely chosen one — if, that is to say, by means of sublimation, it makes possible the use of existing inclinations, of persisting or constitutionally reinforced instinctual impulses. And yet, as a path to happiness, work is not highly prized by men. They do not strive after it as they do after other possibilities of satisfaction. The great majority of people only work under the stress of necessity, and this natural human aversion to work raises most difficult social problems.
— Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
The positive vibrations of unregulated joy, peace, happiness and tranquility is freedom.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity of care, we are not happy. And what of contemplation? Its very premise is freedom from the fetters of workaday busyness. Moreover, it itself actualizes this freedom by virtue of being intuition.
— Josef Pieper, Happiness and Contemplation
My art is that of the 35mm kind; my poetry is of the lead and ink kind; my happiness is of the product of both; and my legacy is of the story of my soul, that my life left behind
— Jeremy Aldana
How can one explain this trend towards a more colorless and shallow life? Well, the work was easier, if less healthy, and it brought in more money, more leisure, and perhaps more entertainment. A day in the country is long and hard. And yet the fruits of their present life were worthless compared to a single coin of their former life: a rest in the evening and a rural festivity. That they no longer knew the old kind of happiness was obvious from the discontentment which spread over their features. Soon dissatisfaction, prevailing over all their other moods, became their religion.
— Ernst Jünger, The Glass Bees
As Tim followed me up the narrow stairwell, he playfully pinched my butt with every step, a pleasant (and painful--in a black-and-blue sort of way) reminder that all I had yearned for as a student twenty-five years before had come true, even if I hadn't taken the time to notice it until now: I was happy. At twenty years old, had I articulated what I thought I needed in life, I would have probably said a big house, a successful husband, and a great career. Yet all I really needed for true happiness was the homeless, unemployed bus driver right behind me, pinching my butt every step of the way.
— Doreen Orion, Queen of the Road: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus with a Will of Its Own
-Do you think artists are supposed to be happy? -Everyone is supposed to be. -I said staunchly,and I knew that I was indeed an idiot and that was my destiny and I didn't mind it
— Elizabeth Kostova, The Swan Thieves
The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms.
— Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger
That no man can truly imagine being happy and that's why happiness isn't for sale here.
— Robin Hobb, Ship of Magic
My mind to me a kingdom is,Such present joys therein I find,That it excels all other blissThat world affords or grows by kind.Though much I want which most would have,Yet still my mind forbids to crave.
— Edward Dyer
Some of the most memorable, and least regrettable, nights of my own youth were spent in coon hunting with farmers. There is no denying that these activities contributed to the economy of farm households, but a further fact is that they were pleasures; they were wilderness pleasures, not greatly different from the pleasures pursued by conservationists and wilderness lovers. As I was always aware, my friends the coon hunters were not motivated just by the wish to tree coons and listen to hounds and listen to each other, all of which were sufficiently attractive; they were coon hunters also because they wanted to be afoot in the woods at night. Most of the farmers I have known, and certainly the most interesting ones, have had the capacity to ramble about outdoors for the mere happiness of it, alert to the doings of the creatures, amused by the sight of a fox catching grasshoppers, or by the puzzle of wild tracks in the snow.
— Wendell Berry, Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food
It is no coincidence that precisely when things started going downhill with the gods, politics gained its bliss-making character. There would be no reason for objecting to this, since the gods, too were not exactly fair. But at least people saw temples instead of termite architecture. Bliss is drawing closer; it is no longer in the afterlife, it will come, though not momentarily, sooner or later in the here and now - in time.The anarch thinks more primitively; he refuses to give up any of his happiness. "Make thyself happy" is his basic law. It his response to the "Know thyself" at the temple of Apollo in Delphi. These two maxims complement each other; we must know our happiness and our measure.
— Ernst Jünger, Eumeswil
I do not think the sunny youth of either will prove the forerunner of stormy age. I think it is deemed good that you two should live in peace and be happy - not as angels but as few are happy amongst mortals. Some lives are thus blessed: it is God's will: it is the attesting trace and lingering evidence of Eden. Other lives run from the first another course. Other travellers encounter weather fitful and gusty wild and variable - breast adverse winds are belated and overtaken by the early closing winter night. Neither can this happen without the sanction of God and I know that amidst His boundless works is somewhere stored the secret of this last fate's justice: I know that His treasures contain the proof as the promise of its mercy.
— Charlotte Brontë, Villette
The "supreme good" and its attainment -- that is happiness. And joy is: response to happiness.
— Josef Pieper, Happiness and Contemplation
The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not.
— L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams
He wished someone in the course of history had thought of striking that word and all its derivatives from the English Language - happy, happier, happiest, happiness. What the devil did the words really mean anyway? Why not just the word pleasure, which was far more... well, pleasant.
— Mary Balogh, Then Comes Seduction
Ahora sabemos que las cosas buenas ocurren, que los sueños a veces se cumplen, que los deseos pueden hacerse realidad y de nosotros depende no olvidarlo para poder meterle un gol a esa portería invisible del día a día.
— Eugenia Rico
... each gratification points to the ultimate one, and that all happiness has some connection with eternal beatitude. Some connection, if only this: that every fulfillment this side of Heaven instantly reveals its inadequacy. It is immediately evident that such satisfactions are not enough; they are not what we have really sought; they cannot really satisfy us at all.
— Josef Pieper, Happiness and Contemplation
...ежели разобраться, что такое счастье? Это - жизнь без страха...(Корнелий Глас)
— Vladislav Krapivin, Выстрел с монитора. Гуси-гуси, га-га-га...
At liminality, at a transitional point between his last night dream and reality, he realizes he has made a big mistake and happiness is possible without death. (Coming back to himself.)
— Lara Biyuts, The Sunless Parlour
Small Moth...She's slicing ripe white peachesinto the Tony the Tiger bowland dropping slivers for the dogpoised vibrating by her foot to stop their fallwhen she spots it, camouflaged,a glimmer and then full on-happiness, plashing blunt soft wingsinside her as if it wantsto escape again.
— Sarah Lindsay
A fondness for roving, for making a name for themselves in their onw country, and for boasting of what they had seen in their travels, was so strong in our two wanderers, that they resolved to be no longer happy; and demanded permission of the king to leave the country.
— Voltaire, Candide
He stared to sea. "I gave up all ideas of practicing medicine. In spite of what I have just said about the wave and the water, in those years in France I am afraid I lived a selfish life. That is, I offered myself every pleasure. I traveled a great deal. I lost some money dabbling in the theatre, but I made much more dabbling on the Bourse. I gained a great many amusing friends, some of whom are now quite famous. But I was never very happy. I suppose I was fortunate. It took me only five years to discover what some rich people never discover — that we all have a certain capacity for happiness and unhappiness. And that the economic hazards of life do not seriously affect it.
— John Fowles, The Magus
Some don’t want to be happy, inasmuch as they undergo happiness merely as languor and yawning. They are dissatisfied with a bland and vacuous state of glee and, instead, prefer to keep on running like raging bulls through the whims and quirks of life. In reality, their dissatisfaction is their contentment. ("Happiness blowing in the wind" )
— Erik Pevernagie