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But in that first flush of victory and happiness and relief, and God knows what other emotions were involved in this great moment, we were all very much one, and we were all in a state of euphoria, drunk with our happiness.
— Harry Bernstein, The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers
Asymmetrie [macht] Menschen unglücklich.
— J.M. Coetzee, In the Heart of the Country
Happiness can be as elusive as a small fish darting away in a mountain stream.
— Ruskin Bond, Funny Side Up
Develop habits of self-love that allow you to feel happy and cared for. You deserve happiness and your actions every day should be giving you that. Make time for yourself to enjoy life.
— Avina Celeste
There are no quick fixes in your life. If you want to live a happier life you have to make your actions happier every day. You need to be determined to make your life better if you want it to be so.
— Avina Celeste
Only when you follow your heart, can you find holy happiness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you follow your heart, you know true happiness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Whoever count his blessings, shall be content.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To live with hope is a happy state of being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I feel so glad to be alive!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There is no distinction between means and ends. There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way. There is no way to enlightenment, enlightenment is the way.
— Thich Nhat Hanh, Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child
Petnaest srećnih godina su kratke - odgovorih. Petnaest nesrećnih godina su duge i pružaju čoveku mnogo iskustva.
— Erich Maria Remarque, The Night in Lisbon
There are easy ways to bring back summer in the snowstorm
— André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
The meaning of life? Is feel! Increase that sound! Tickle someone! Enjoy the warmth of the sun! Go aimlessly for 30 minutes! Only register in the heart!
— 1 Minuto na Palma da Mão
Because it's worth dreaming and expecting the best from you and others, because once you fulfill your dreams you can make other people happy as well.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job
If happiness were the means to measure the evolutionary level of a species, I bet Darwin would’ve changed his mind and places humans at the very bottom.
— Charbel Tadros
Just like a GPS, the universe sends you signs to show you the best course. If you follow the flow, you get where you want with ease and happiness. If you miss a turn, the road becomes longer and harder.
— Charbel Tadros
A risk to own anything : a car, a pair of shoes, a packet of cigarettes. Not enough to go around. Not enough shoes, cars, cigarettes. Too many people too few things. What there is must go into circulation, so that everyone can have a chance to be happy for a day.
— J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace
The ego is the ultimate conspirator.
— Bert McCoy
Happiness without reason is bliss.
— Tapan Ghosh, Faceless The Only Way Out
Carry cheerfulness as well as positive vibes with you and leave a trail of joy wherever you go.
— Latika Teotia
Be happy, and the reason will appear.
— Jeff Olson, The Slight Edge: Secret to a Successful Life
Never have I been frightened by circumstances. A little warmth, a little bread, my little ones with me, and life begins, happiness begins.
— Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia
A happy man eagerly awaits the rising of the sun.
— Greg Dutilly
Happiness is a healed heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You can never get enough of what you really don't want. Identify what it is you're actually craving. This will save Time, Energy and Resources.
— Izey Victoria Odiase
You know, once,” Robert said, “I was working in the shop, doing some repairs on a music box, and it was all going wrong. Da took me aside and told me to think of it like life: ‘It looks complicated when you see all the separate pieces, but the purpose of the music box is to play joyful music. You just have to remember how to fit them together so it will. The same with life really. It’s just about the living of it. That’s all you have, and all you can do: live and be happy.
— Peter Bunzl, Cogheart
Laten we op zoek gaan naar 'vreugde' in plaats van naar eerlijk voedsel en schone lucht en een gezondere toekomst op een bewoonbare planeet! Alsof geluk volstaat om ons te beschermen tegen de gevolgen van winst-waanzin.
— Audre Lorde
Marcus's fear that his wife might succumb to childbed fever receded day by day as Lillian returned to her old self, healthy and slender and vigorous. His relief was vast. He had never known such overwhelming love for one person, nor had he anticipated that Lillian would so quickly become his essential requirement for happiness. Anything that was in his power to do for Lillian would be done.
— Lisa Kleypas, Scandal in Spring
I suppose if you love someone, you don´t stop them doing the things that make them happy.
— Ann Cleeves, Blue Lightning
Those who complain that fate is against them will have a hard time finding happiness in their lives
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom
If you want to be happy think about tomorrow but not the day after tomorrow.
— Hossmith
Happy are you who have a merry heart for you are in continual feast for all eternity! Alleluia! Amen! 
— Melvyn M. Lusterio
Majority of our unhappiness comes from others.Someone did something or someone did not do something. What if we change our wiring to associate our happiness with ourselves instead. I did a good deed so I am happy. I was fair so I am happy. I still kept on the right path so I am happy. I in that bad experience explored myself a little more so I am happy. I am peaceful so I am happy. Old ways of thinking have broken us enough  it's time to change !
— Drishti Bablani
Be sure you don't lose your happiness teaching others people how to be happy. Your happiness is your teaching.
— Alan Cohen
You have limited time on this planet. Convert each moment into Perl by spreading happiness. Giving is much more fulfilling than taking.
— Mayur Ramgir
Without healing, there is no happiness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Smiled.  The type of smile that men drive all night in a blinding rainstorm on their bike to see. The type of smile that keep men fighting brutal wars for years in the vain of hope of seeing it again. The type of smile that made me come to my feet, because if i didn't, I'd fall to my knees.
— Katie McGarry, Long Way Home
We're always telling ourselves that we "want to be happy" when what we really have to say is "I NEED to be happy. I NEED to do the things I love. I NEED to surround myself with people that make me smile.
— Avina Celeste
As you act with more control, compassion, and love, the lives of those around you improve. When you let yourself find happiness, your friends, family, and acquaintances will begin to find their happiness too.
— Avina Celeste
As long as you have food, water, and shelter, all that matters is what goes on inside your mind. A happy mind makes for a happy life. Find the little pleasant moments that happen in your day and summon all the happiness you can from each and every one. There may be bad days but if you can find a tiny speck of happiness then it is not all for nothing. Live in the moment. Let go of the bad in your past and enjoy every happy moment to the fullest extent.
— Avina Celeste
Gratitude is the secret to happiness.
— Mahrukh
I want to hurt, so I can heal.I'm not unhappy.I'm just busy.I'm interested.And that's okay.
— Matthew Inman, How to Be Perfectly Unhappy
If I should get lost in all the chaos of the world, pull your butterly net and catch me in the beauty of your love. Remind me of important things -- friends, flowers, fields of cool grass under bare feet, blue skies above, rain on my face, and freedom... freedom to make a difference, freedom to be me. Pull out your butterfly net and remind me of these things, and most of all... your undying love.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
People need each other. Our well-being is tightly tethered to the well-being of people we do not know, most of whom look nothing like ourselves. Happiness, I realized right there in breathing class, requires engagement.
— Paula Poundstone, The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness
Deep-rooted happiness may require a sense of purpose. If I don't feel that I am in some small way contributing to the greater good, holding on to happiness is like carrying water in my hands.
— Paula Poundstone, The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness
It’s not how much material things you have hoarded that will make you happy but how satisfied you are with what you have so far. A rich person can be the poorest wreck if he is not satisfied with what he already has and a materially poor can be happy if he is satisfied with the little he has.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom
Without suffering there cannot be happiness. Without mud there cannot be any lotus flowers.
— Thich Nhat Hanh, Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child
Unusual things, they quickly grab my attention. Messy hair and rainy days are my kinds of perfection, but I mostly love when you kiss me hard and take me beyond this realm to that holy place I only find with you.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
Too late. It was all too late. But she went on, determined as ever and always trying to catch up.
— Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
Sometimes we forget to see the magic in the most simple things.
— Jennifer White - Strong Heart Awakening
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
— José Martí
I'm not everyone's cup of tea, because I'm a kick butt cappuccino with extra milk fluff and chocolate sprinkles!
— Jennifer White - Strong Heart Awakening
The most beautiful place I've ever been is in your heart.
— Jennifer White - Strong Heart Awakening
And the love in their eyes set the world on fire.
— Jennifer White - Strong Heart Awakening
There are those times when you need to push negative people aside, give fear a swift kick in the ass and fire up your dreams.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
Don't worry if you've been labeled as weird. Who wants to be classed as normal in an insane world?
— Jennifer White - Strong Heart Awakening
If you want to make people angry. Be Happy. It's sad that people cant stand when others are happy inlife. It really says a lot about them.
— De philosopher DJ Kyos
They tricked me in school and marketing only made it worse. Happiness, love, wellness, success are not children of luck, things to be found or to work hard for, but matters of design. A good life story is all about imagination, resilience, strategy and skills.
— Gi Young
Our imperfection is the perfect experience of being human.
— Jennifer White - Strong Heart Awakening
You know you became a leader when people start to copy you!
— Jennifer White - Strong Heart Awakening
When catastrophe strikes compassion and love unite. A storm can't break the spirit of love. A storm may crack your windows, tear off your roof, wreck your house, but it absolutely cannot destroy the foundation you hold within yourself. Stay strong. Stay rooted. Carry love in your heart, always, and know the sacred things in life can't be touched.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
If you don't receive enough, have a look if you give enough.
— Jennifer White - Strong Heart Awakening
A weakness is a strength on overdrive!
— Jennifer White - Strong Heart Awakening
Don't Sit Around Waiting For Someone Who's Taken A Walk off Your Life to Come Back
—  Get Going Too!
In the dark, there is silence but in the light there is warmth.
— Sonya Watson
It is not necessary that we will find the purpose of our lives by accumulating fancy degrees. We don’t have to search for it in formal places only; the realization can dawn on us even in the most unexciting place. In fact our ordinary, relatively dull and unexciting commonplace routine is the right place to reflect. It gives us plenty of time to take stock of our lives see what gives us peace and brings happiness. So based on the realization follow the path that gives you bliss.
— Latika Teotia
i am anearthquake& dancemost heavilyupon all myfaults.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
Why are we miserable, when there is music?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When I say maturity, I mean an inner integrity. And this inner integrity comes only when you stop making others responsible, when you stop saying that the other is creating your suffering, when you start realizing that you are the creator of your suffering. This is the first step towards maturity: I am responsible. Whatsoever is happening, it is my doing.You feel sad. Is this your doing? You will feel very much disturbed, but if you can remain with this feeling, sooner or later you will be able to stop doing many things. This is what the theory of karma is all about. You are responsible. Don’t say society is responsible, don’t say that parents are responsible, don’t say the economic conditions are responsible, don’t throw the responsibility onto anybody. YOU are responsible.
— Osho, The Empty Boat: Talks on the Sayings of Chuang Tzu
To the person in my future...I hope you're ready, because I'm going to love you... fiercely. You'll never have to suffer for my past heartache. It's taught me that I need love more than the absence of it. I'm not perfect, nor is my track record. I've experienced a lot of takers in my life - but I'll love you with every part of me that remains.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
Daring to be kind is a sign of strength, not weakness.
— Arne Klingenberg
If you can't be happy, Make someone else happy! :)
— Hossmith
If you can't be happy, Make someone else happy. :)
— Hossmith
Witta feared nothing - except to be poor.
— Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill
The thing that would make me happy is to live in Geoffrey Stoner’s world.
— Melinda Heald, The Promise of Sunrise
You demand excellence and excellence demands your every move better
— Myra Yadav, Move On
When we think of all the beatitudes in life, our heart shall be merry.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Real joy is never influenced.
— Haresh Sippy
Philip thought that in throwing over the desire for happiness he was casting aside the last of his illusions. His life had seemed horrible when it was measured by its happiness, but now he seemed to gather strength as he realised that it might be measured by something else. Happiness mattered as little as pain. They came in, both of them, as all the other details of his life came in, to the elaboration of the design. He seemed for an instant to stand above the accidents of his existence, and he felt that they could not affect him again as they had done before. Whatever happened to him now would be one more motive to add to the complexity of the pattern, and when the end approached he would rejoice in its completion. It would be a work of art, and it would be none the less beautiful because he alone knew of its existence, and with his death it would at once cease to be.
— W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
Happiness will never flourish in a life bereft of optimism.
— Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
Smiles and laughter are contagious
—  feel free to spread these viruses.
The true joy lies in the unpredictability of nature.
— Sarthak Tiwari
What worse you expect? World's cheapest thing is happiness and it is scarce.
— Mahrukh
Only job I know well is to spread happiness.
— Mahrukh
Spread Smiles, it may cost you nothing but may worth more than anything for some one.
— Mahrukh
In Fillory you felt the appropriate emotions when things happened. Happiness was a real, actual, achievable possibility. It came when you called. Or no, it never left you in the first place.
— Lev Grossman, The Magicians
Love makes a happy life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Smile is the beauty of the soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Happiness, said De Quincey, on his discovery of the paradise that he thought he had found in opium, could be sent down by the mail-coach; more truly I could announce my discovery that delight could be contained in small octavos and small type, in a bookshelf three feet long.
— Arthur Machen, The Autobiography Of Arthur Machen
The heart knows what it feels.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Every human being desires love and happiness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Rule 1: Be kind.Rule 2: Don't be a doormat when they step on you.Kindness and sticking up for yourself go hand in hand if you want happiness.
— Richie Norton
Happiness is a masterpiece: the slightest error compromises it, the slightest hesitation undermines it, the slightest excess corrupts it, the slightest vulgarity defiles it.
— Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
Happiness is my drug of choice.
— Marty Rubin
Indulge yourself because you have to learn to love yourself first before you try to reconstruct your life and piece it together. Go on, release those bottled up feelings, let your hair down and do what gives you real happiness. Believe me, you will feel relieved and feel much lighter. Don’t let situations and people pull you down. Promise yourself that you will live life your way on your terms and put your own self first. Surround yourself with positive people and never ever feel sorry for yourself- self pity will only bring negativity in its wake. So go ahead rebuild your life and live it the way you want to.
— Latika Teotia
Those who have eyes…do not know their happiness.
— André Gide, La symphonie pastorale
Be kind. Be happy. Be free.
— Marty Rubin
Anything that drains your emotions or fills you with negativity is not good for your soul; avoid such people, thoughts, situations and so on. Surround yourself with positive people whose company gives you happiness and peace of mind.
— Latika Teotia
Happiness at work is not associated with people it is a result of our own actions, happiness from achievements becomes a proud moment because we can see an improvement in own abilities, but we don't live with that and start expecting praise and recognition from others, and if it doesn't happen we make it an unhappy moment. But once we start celebrating achievements, the achievement process itself becomes a happy moment.
— Shahenshah Hafeez Khan
Explaining or defending your dreams to people who don't understand them will actually take away time to making them come true!
— Jennifer White - Strong Heart Awakening
At one point in your life you start to understand that all what really matters is the love you give and the love you receive.
— Jennifer White - Strong Heart Awakening
People who tell you to stop living in a fairytale world are very likely people who live in a horror movie.
— Jennifer White - Strong Heart Awakening
Before we can bring happiness to others, we first must be happy ourselves; nor will happiness abide within us unless we confer it on others. If there be a smile upon our lips, those around us will soon smile too; and our happiness will become the truer and deeper as we see that these others are happy. "It is not seemly that I, who, willingly, have brought sorrow to none, should permit myself to be sad," said Marcus Aurelius, in one of his noblest passages.
— Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom And Destiny
By learning to be more warm-hearted we can create a more compassionate world.
— Auliq-Ice
Never let anybody destroy your own ability to create happiness.Its the only thing that will let you succeed when you feel everything else has let you down.Peace and love.
— John Maiorana (oohGiovanni)
De temps à autre, il est bon de faire une pause dans notre quête du bonheur et d'être simplement heureux.
— Guillaume Apollinaire
Life said to me, Be happy. Don't let me down.
— Marty Rubin
Can a man's life be complete without his Maker?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Coffee and books are a simple recipe for happiness.
— Nourhan Mamdouh
A man desire two things: love and happiness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The greatest joy is the grace of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life should be simple and easy. If you're doing it hard, you're doing it wrong.
— Conrad Aquino, Life Should Be Simple and Easy: If You're Doing It Hard, You're Doing It Wrong
Life only wants us to be happy. We impose these burdens on ourselves.
— Marty Rubin
Good or bad, happy or sad, everything that happens does so for a reason; no incident in this world is a stray occurrence. Don’t be unnecessarily perplexed or anxious about it- accept it. There’s no point resisting it because it was ordained. A strain of music, perhaps a song, at times a stray incident brings back memories of another day. Some may be nostalgically beautiful others may bring back that ache in the heart that you thought you had overcome long ago. Don’t stop them, let them keep flooding in. They are your memories of an era gone by. Feel them. Relive the good ones. Chew the cud of nostalgia. You will feel energized. The unhappy ones too are welcome, let them in. That pain that you feel once again is the purging of your heart. Feel that the ache for one last time and forgive those that caused the pain. Let go of those memories tenderly. Gently bid them adieu with love. You are a new person now. Those old memories have gone and they have left a space; you are now ready to accept new ones. Fill your life with love; spread it. Live life the way you want to. Do things that you have wanted to do all this while but were afraid to. Live the life that brings you happiness and makes your heart sing with joy...
— Latika Teotia
According to just about every poll on happiness, people on the Left are generally less happy than conservatives.
— Dennis Prager, Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph
I have devoted much of my life to studying, writing, and lecturing about the subject of happiness. In particular, I have advocated that people act as happy as possible even when they do not feel happy. This is, I believe, both a moral obligation to all those who are in our lives—it is unfair to others to inflict our bad moods on them—and a particularly effective way to increase our own happiness, since acting happy elevates one’s mood. This is hardly controversial—in just about every area of life, human beings deeply influence how they feel by how they act. As a rule, those who object to this idea of acting contrary to how one feels are people on the Left—because on the Left, feelings are sacrosanct.
— Dennis Prager, Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph
Yes I value strong friendships on a very deep level, I value these connections because time and time again i will go through heartbreak, I will forget my self worth, I will make mistakes and my world will feel broken beyond repair and to have these special people in your life that will be there to help you pick up the pieces and remind you what makes you special and worth being alive is the most amazing feeling in the world and I would never trade that for anything.
— John Maiorana (oohGiovanni)
As we did without clergy, let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy; it will not do; it is fearful and it is trivial.
— Ursula K Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy
—  it will not do
Saying yes comes very easily to me and, more often than not, I get into situations that could have been avoided by using the magical two letter word, ‘NO’. Then I sit back and regret having said yes to something which is guaranteed to take away my peace of mind. Enough of pandering to others, enough of indulging those who do not help me grow enough of saying ‘yes’ to those who are not good for my well being. I have consciously decided to be very very choosy about saying yes. I will say yes to my happiness, contentment and growth. My ‘yes’ will also be given to those who inspire me and who motivate me to reach higher.
— Latika Teotia
i believe happiness do not transform man .rather happiness gives growth after achieving happiness passing through transformation
— litymunshi
Doing the next "right thing" will always bring more genuine happiness than simply doing the next fun thing.
— John Bruna
All changes are positive, just look in the bright side, always and you find the pearl that lies beneath in the sand and a sunny way is there ahead for you!:)
— Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job
No, you pessimistic fool, I am saying that if we can find it in ourselves to be miserable even when things are actually pretty good then there should be no difficulty being happy even when there is gloom and doom all around us.
— Anuja Chandramouli, Yama’s Lieutenant and the Stone Witch
It's important to achieve balance in sandwiches, because who really knows how to achieve it in life? Life is messy, difficult, occasionally great but mostly upsetting and out of your control. But you can always make a good sandwich, and a good sandwich will make you happy!
— Tyler Kord, A Super Upsetting Cookbook About Sandwiches
Hope lies in what action we take.
— Auliq-Ice
It is in the nature of the mind that the more we cultivate and familiarize ourselves with positive emotions, the more powerful they become.
— Auliq-Ice
The future can be different if we choose to make it so.
— Auliq-Ice
Positive emotions like compassion and loving kindness engender in us a deep sense of peace and serenity, and benefits others as well.
— Auliq-Ice
Is happiness a sort of blissful state of mind or just a kind of surreal propensity? It may be hard to recognize its very nature, if we remain guilelessly confined in a state of woeful unawareness or in a no-man’s-land of emotions. In their dogged and obstinate quest for the zenith of happiness, many forget to take pleasure in the small things of everyday and, thus, become disgruntled and depressed instead, which leads them to a mire of gloom. ("C’est quand le bonheur “)
— Erik Pevernagie
We need not be afraid of expecting the unexpected, but let us wheedle each instant we enjoy and endear each happy moment we encounter; let us watch each step we take and each move we make, ever since happiness is a loving and appealing fairy, but utterly frail and vulnerable. ("Happy days are back again")
— Erik Pevernagie
You smoked another cigarette and we shared another coffee and it was just another morning that made me realise that this is all it takes to be happy.
— Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps
Go for the hum.
— Ethan Mordden, Pooh's Workout Book
Inner beauty, warm-heartedness and compassion, is what brings about peace of mind.
— Auliq-Ice
We can show love, respect for others, and honesty in whatever we do to help humanity.
— Auliq-Ice
If you have a warm heart and you care for others you'll be happy and the community in which you live will be happier too.
— Auliq-Ice
When you expect nothing and receive something, it's such a nice surprise. I'm not saying to be pessimistic. Just when it comes to other people, don't hinge your happiness to expectation and outcome. Don't make it tit for tat. Don't keep score. Don't expect or demand something back. Do the best you can. Work passionately towards your dreams. Be a good person. Liberate yourself from expectation so much that when something does happen: when someone does do something nice, you can be surprised. Celebrate in that joy. It makes it all the more fun when it comes unexpectedly! Expectations in relationships suck all the gratitude and appreciation out of everything. Beyond honesty, respect and basic decency nothing need be "expected". Let it occur naturally. Go with the flow. Whatever you end up with will be more honest and real.
— Akiroq Brost
There is no fortitude like patience, just as there is no destructive emotion worse than hatred.
— Auliq-Ice
Self-acceptance is the basis of a happy life.
— Auliq-Ice
We experience happiness on a sensory level that is relatively short-lived. But lasting happiness is related to our state of mind.
— Auliq-Ice
Compassion brings us peace of mind. It brings a smile to our face and genuine smiles bring us closer together.
— Auliq-Ice
On a mental level, kindness and compassion give rise to lasting joy.
— Auliq-Ice
A more peaceful world and a more peaceful century require that we rely not on weapons but on developing a widespread inner peace.
— Auliq-Ice
Peace in the world depends on our relating to each other with compassion.
— Auliq-Ice
Love is like a drug that can either kill you, weaken you or make you stronger. Like a poison that finds it way through you body with each kiss, each touch and each look.It makes you feel euphoric. Makes you feel like you can take on anything that comes on your path. Whether it walks behind, in front or beside you. No mountain is high enough, no ocean deep enough and the sky had no limit.It can make you feel weak. Make you question everything around except the person who the love is for. But it can also destroy you in a way you never would have imagined was even possible. It hurts like a thousand knives twisting against your spine, paralyzing you. It can make you feel like the world just caved in around you, beneath you.You ask yourself if this is all worth it. Worth the euphoric feeling of someone loving you. Worth everything.I can tell you that in the end, it is. Because now you may feel destroyed, but keep in mind that a feeling is something that can be changed. There is someone who will build you up. Who will climb the highest mountain or cross the deepest oceans. Who makes you feel alive all for the right reasons. Someone who will not sugar coat his intentions. Who will not say he's someone he actually is not. Someone who wants you in his life. Who shows you off like a show pony to show everyone how proud he/she is to have you in his/her life.The feeling of destruction will fade when you meet someone who is willing to build you up. Who doesn't care how deep your roots have rooted itself into the earth to keep yourself grounded. Who will find every last stone to make sure your as strong as ever when everything else came crumbling down.
— Kim Pape
A simple act of kindness is happiness gained.
— Julia Kushemererwa
If in day to day life you lead a good life, honestly, with love, compassion, and less selfishness, then automatically you will find peace.
— Auliq-Ice
None of us has an obligation to accept the definitions of ‘respect’ and ‘gratitude’ our parents espoused, especially when those definitions can be used to guilt-trip us, or when they are being used for the purpose of forcing us to do certain things (as an extortion mechanism).
— Lukasz Laniecki, You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes
Первое, на что я обратил внимание в тот первый день в Бомбее, – непривычный запах. Я почувствовал его уже в переходе от самолета к зданию аэровокзала – прежде, чем услышал или увидел что-либо в Индии. Этот запах был приятен и будоражил меня, в ту первую минуту в Бомбее, когда я, вырвавшись на свободу, заново вступал в большой мир, но он был мне абсолютно незнаком. Теперь я знаю, что это сладкий, тревожный запах надежды, уничтожающей ненависть, и в то же время кислый, затхлый запах жадности, уничтожающей любовь. Это запах богов и демонов, распадающихся и возрожденных империй и цивилизаций. Это голубой запах морской кожи, ощутимый в любой точке города на семи островах, и кроваво-металлический запах машин. Это запах суеты и покоя, всей жизнедеятельности шестидесяти миллионов животных, больше половины которых – человеческие существа и крысы. Это запах любви и разбитых сердец, борьбы за выживание и жестоких поражений, выковывающих нашу храбрость. Это запах десяти тысяч ресторанов, пяти тысяч храмов, усыпальниц, церквей и мечетей, а также сотен базаров, где торгуют исключительно духами, пряностями, благовониями и свежими цветами. Карла назвала его однажды худшим из самых прекрасных ароматов, и она была, несомненно, права, как она всегда бывает по-своему права в своих оценках. И теперь, когда бы я ни приехал в Бомбей, прежде всего я ощущаю этот запах – он приветствует меня и говорит, что я вернулся домой.
— Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
In order to fall asleep we must first close our eyes and pretend to be sleeping. Can the same be true for happiness and success?
— Ross Caligiuriri
President Thomas S. Monson has said: “God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity in the cloud, the oil in the earth. He left the rivers unbridged and the forests unfelled and the cities unbuilt. God gives to man the challenge of raw materials, not the ease of finished things. He leaves the pictures unpainted and the music unsung and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys and glories of creation.” (in Quest of the Abundant Life, Ensign, March 1988) Put simply, the exhilaration of being creative and the feeling of accomplishment that often accompany hard work bring happiness. (Hank Smith, Be Happy)
— Hank Smith
A meaningful life comes with the health, happiness and productivity of our children, family and ourselves. So many people get their wires crossed seeking material goods; the things that make them feel better as a means to happiness. The comfort of knowing our love ones are healthy and happy is the treasure we should seek. That’s where happiness rest, laying there for us beyond measure.
— Ron Baratono
Happiness means knowing how to limit some needs which only diminish us, and being open to the many different possibilities which life can offer.
— Pope Francis, Laudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home
Where your heart is, there is your treasure of happiness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is only a misery, without music.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Seekers, what are you seeking? Why aren't you happy just to be alive?
— Marty Rubin
Don't turn your back on your own happiness just to hug your pride.
— Nora Roberts, Enchanted
We only realize what happiness is about, after it has slammed the door to our inattention; and killing silence has deafened the tunefulness of our life. ("Happy days are back again")
— Erik Pevernagie
The difference between your friend and your best friend is that your friend asks, ‘Are you are ok?’ and your best friend asks, ‘Do you want to talk about it?
— Savania China
If this is a dream, may we never wake up!
— Ahmed Mostafa
Don't waste time defending your intentions. History will judge you by the outcomes of your actions
— Savania China
I'm starting to think paradise isn't eternal contentment. It's more like there's something eternal about feeling contented. There's no such thing as eternal life, because you're never going to outrun time, but you can still escape time if you're contented, because then time doesn't matter.
— Jonathan Franzen, Purity
Don't pay attention to people Who tell you can't do it at lenght. Trusting your own instincts Can lead to what's quintessential. Make their limitation be your strenght. You might as well contradict them And then reach your full potential.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job
Happiness is not always a reality many times it is in our memory.
— Hockson Floin
Habitual identification with discursive thought is the source of human suffering
— Sam Harris
Our habitual failure to recognise thought as thought, our habitual identification with discursive thought, is the primary source of human suffering.
— Sam Harris
Some of the most memorable paths I've taken have been detours.
— Toni Sorenson
I can only change the world by changing myself.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
It’s tempting to imagine happiness as a state of mind caused by whatever is happening in your life. By that way of thinking, we’re largely victims of the cold, cold world that sometimes rewards our good work and sometimes punishes us for no reason. That’s a helpless worldview and it can blind you to a simple system for being happier. Science has done a good job in recent years of demonstrating that happiness isn’t as dependent on your circumstances as you might think. For example, amputees often return to whatever level of happiness they enjoyed before losing a limb. And you know from your own experience that some people seem to be happy no matter what is going on in their lives, while others can’t find happiness no matter how many things are going right. We’re all born with a limited range of happiness, and the circumstances of life can only jiggle us around within the range. The good news is that anyone who has experienced happiness probably has the capacity to spend more time at the top of his or her personal range and less time near the bottom.
— Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
You probably think the majority of your crabbiness is caused by the idiots and sociopaths in your life plus your inexplicable bad luck on any given day. Based on a lifetime of observation, my best estimate is that 80 percent of your mood is based on how your body feels and only 20 percent is based on your genes and your circumstances, particularly your health.
— Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
Of the big five factors in happiness—flexible schedule, imagination, diet, exercise, and sleep—my pick for the most important is exercise.
— Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
It may seem that you are on the path alone, but the light that guides you is coming from somewhere. Trust your every step because none of us walk this journey alone.
— Toni Sorenson
Misery is a state of unconciousness. We are miserable because we are not aware of what we are doing, of what we are thinking, of what we are feeling -- so we are continuously contradicting ourselves each moment. Action goes in one direction,thinking goes in another,feeling is somewhere else. We go on falling apart, we become more and more fragmented.There are only two ways out of it. They can become meditators - alert,aware,conscious... that's an arduous thing. It needs guts. Or the cheaper way is to find something that can make you even more unconcious thank you are, so you cannot feel the misery,like drugs and alcohol,sometimes even religion...
— Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance
You will not find happiness till you find your peaceful corner in life!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
You go on trying and trying, and you make many decisions and you take many vows,but nothing happens -- you remain the same. Not that you have not tried,not that you have not tried enough, you have tried and tried and tried. And you fail because it is not a question of effort. More effort won't help. It is a question of being alert, not of effort.
— Osho, Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance
...a being, with a capacity of reasoning, would not have failed to discover, as his faculties unfolded, that true happiness arose from the friendship and intimacy which can only be enjoyed by equals; and that charity is not a condescending distribution of alms, but an intercourse of good offices and mutual benefits, founded on respect for justice and humanity.
— Mary Wollstonecraft, Works of Mary Wollstonecraft
Art is good, but happiness is better.
— Marty Rubin
Accepting uncertainty was the key to happiness.
— Catherine Lacey, The Answers
It is true - I am creating the life that I want.
— Catherine Marie Bergman
I am moving as one with the universe.
— Catherine Marie Bergman
Be smart. You Only Die Once -YODO
— Savania China
Hope makes a merry heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When love has left us in the lurch and nothing ever strikes a chord anymore, we may come to realize a vacuum of the lost vibrations of happiness and an absence of the ethereal and exalting feel of harmony that we only become aware of, after time passes by and everything has expired. (“Amour en friche”)
— Erik Pevernagie
Live a life that fits your specific circumstances, not one that fits someone else’s expectations
— Savania China, Challenge and Improve: Confronting, and Deriving Valuable Life Lessons from, Popular Quotes
Days that lift us like a wave, when you feel you could live forever.
— Marty Rubin
Life is more than being happy
—  it is to impact lives and live for the good of your generation.
Give people a chance.
— Scott Stabile
I'd attended a selective liberal arts college, trained at respectable research institutions, and even completed a dissertation for a doctoral degree. In our shared office, I'd tell new hires I was ABD, so they wouldn't feel their own situation was so bleak. If they saw a ten-year veteran adjunct with a PhD, they might lose hope of securing a permanent job. It was the least I could do, as a good American, to remind the young we were an innocent and optimistic country where everyone was entitled to a fulfilling career. To make sure they understood that PhD stood not for "piled higher and deeper" or "Pop has dough," but in fact the degree meant "professional happiness desired," and at the altruistic colleges of democratic America only the angry or sad ones need not apply.
— Alex Kudera, Auggie's Revenge
I is a dreamblowing giant,” the BFG said. “(...) I is scuddling away to other places to blow dreams into the bedrooms of sleeping children. Nice dreams. Lovely golden dreams. Dreams that is giving the dreamers a happy time.
— Roald Dahl
Happiness is not found in a life lived for the expectations of others.Rather than seek happiness living my life to please the will of others, I will seek happiness where I know it can be found—living my life to please the will of my heart.
— Scott Stabile
I don't know about you, but sometimes I need to remind myself to breathe. I have to close my eyes and concentrate, even force myself to take a few deep breaths. In and out. In and out. In and out.I know that breathing just happens, without us needing to work at it. But so does stress, and distress, and discomfort. That's when a few deep, conscious breaths can make a world of difference.Can I get an inhale?
— Scott Stabile
Judge me not, by my faithjudge me not, by my religionjudge me not, by my angerthat I may manifest happinesswe all have same desires, hungerjudge me, by those memorieswhen I earned your tearsby the cost of pearls
— Mirza Sharafat Hussain Beigh
Giving birth, for me, was like emerging from a car crash to find myself inexplicably, madly in love with Vladimir Putin.
— Ruth Whippman, America the Anxious: How Our Pursuit of Happiness Is Creating a Nation of Nervous Wrecks
We will never find the perfect job, relationship, or situation. What we can do is search for happiness. Our ideals in life are set by others, and it’s because they haven’t mastered the art of the happiness search.
— Ron Baratono, The Writings of Ron Baratono
The reason a lot of people can’t find happiness is because they don’t look for it. They allow themselves to be stuck in the same situations. Sometimes happiness comes with the courage to break free.
— Ron Baratono, The Writings of Ron Baratono
Never adjust your day to suit someone else’s happiness. When riding on God’s good grace, roll with things your way.
— Ron Baratono, The Writings of Ron Baratono
When you learn from the past, you're liberated from it.
— Tim Fargo
Shit works out.
— Scott Stabile
She was a victim, until she decided she wasn’t. Until she realized only she had the final say in her victimhood. That it was a choice. Her choice. Before then, she allowed the actions of others to define her. She allowed painful, unfair circumstances to dictate how she announced herself to the world. She gave up control of who she was, and who she wanted to be, at home—but lost—in a victim’s life. so she made the choice to find herself. She couldn’t take responsibility for everything that happened to her. Bad things happen to us all, even when we don't invite them. But, she could own her response to all of it. everything. The moment she chose to do so, she ignited a strength she’d long forgotten and saw, at last, new possibilitiess for her life. She opened the door to a deeper healing and to endless opportunities for real change. The very moment she chose to take responsibility for her life, she acknowledged her power like never before. And was, never again, a victim.
— Scott Stabile
Sometimes it's not always straightforward, but it's not always confusing either. You just have to respect a person's decisions without disrespecting them.
— Temitayo Olami
Happiness should never be your ultimate goal as you can experience it everyday, it’s a matter of choice
— Harrish Sairaman
When you see Happiness as a far sighted vision or goal, you miss the happiness within!
— Harrish Sairaman
Your excitement, motivation, energy, happiness should be dependent on – YOU and YOU ONLY!!!!!
— Harrish Sairaman
It feels great to share life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You have the power to change your life, if you want to. By the words you speak, the actions you take, the thoughts you give weight to. Your choices make all the difference. Your dedication alone will set you on a new path. Are you committed to making a better life for yourself? We make it a priority to discover your happiness? Can you let the past go to create space for the present? Your life will only change if you're willing to make changes, when you consider your peace and well-being and begin to make choices that serve them. One choice at the time. Though growthh is happening every moment, change rarely happens overnight. But it will happen eventually, if you stay committed. And why wouldn't you? This is your one very precious life were talking about.
— Scott Stabile
Can a heart explode from too much love and happiness?
— Carla Reighard, Travelers
You’ve seen for yourself that when a sad person enters a room, the mood in the room drops. And when you talk to a cheerful person who is full of energy, you automatically feel a boost. I’m suggesting that by becoming a person with good energy, you lift the people around you. That positive change will improve your social life, your love life, your family life, and your career. When I talk about increasing your personal energy, I don’t mean the frenetic, caffeine-fueled, bounce-off-the-walls type of energy. I’m talking about a calm, focused energy. To others it will simply appear that you are in a good mood. And you will be.
— Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
SUICIDE... Is to have the freedom to choose, when, where and how to die.
— John Zea
A happiness trick:do more things that make you happy, and you'll be happy more often.
— Scott Stabile
Hatred is exhausting. You must constantly remind yourself why you hate someone and waste needless energy to keep hating them.Forgiveness
—  you only need to do it once!