“So, what if, instead of thinking about solving your whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Life, Optimism, Cultivating Happiness, Dealing with anxiety
“Happiness is the China shop; love is the bull.”— H.L. Mencken, amazon.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Happiness, Destruction
“You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they seek suffering in the most joyous of places because they think they are unworthy of happiness.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Joy, Pain, Suffering, Accepting Happiness
“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Perspective, Happiness, Optimism, Wisdom, Simplicity
“People aren't interested or attracted to just 'happy' and 'beautiful.' They're interested in people who are interested in things.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, beauty, Attraction, Personality
“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.”— John Barrymore, brainyquote.comTagged: Happiness, Excitment, Life, Loving Life
“We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”— Carlos Castaneda, goodreads.comTagged: Misery, Happiness, strength, Self-improvement, Self-Help
“Those who wish to sing always find a song.”— Swedish Proverb, goodreads.comTagged: Happiness, Positivity, Optimism, Life, Loving Life
“As soon as our circumstances extend beyond the amount of happiness we're accustomed to and comfortable feeling, we unconsciously begin to self-sabotage. We are programmed to seek what we've known. So, even though we think we're after happiness, we're actually trying to find whatever we're most accus…”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Self-Sabotage, Comfort, Change, Resisting Happiness
“You can’t just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks.”— Nora Roberts, goodreads.comTagged: Happiness, Work, Taking Risks
“I’m going to find a way to be happy, and I’d really love to be happy with you, but if I can’t be happy with you, then I’ll find a way to be happy without you.”— Randy Pausch, goodreads.comTagged: Happiness, Love, Self-Sufficiancy, Being Alone, Alone
“Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.”— Cheryl Strayed, goodreads.comTagged: Joy, Happiness, The Past, Moving On, Change
“Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.”— Henry Miller, goodreads.comTagged: Life, Experience, Interest, Happiness
“Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Joy, Pain, Loss, Grieving
“Happiness is not you arrive at but a matter of traveling.”— Margaret Lee Runback, facebook.comTagged: Traveling, Happiness
“Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Expectations, enjoy the moment
“We’re only here briefly and while I’m here I want to allow myself joy.”— Amy Adams, Amy, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Living In The Moment
“Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Success
“To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of life, as Eve felt the joy of life. To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter every day. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something…”— Garth Stein, amazon.comTagged: Death, Joy, Happiness