“Maybe one of the most heartening findings from the psychology of pleasure is there’s more to looking good than your physical appearance. If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband or wife looks much better than anyone else t…”— Paul Bloom, ted.com
“And I love everything on this changing, burning earth, but I am most grateful to you.”— Katherine Catmull, amazon.com
“How can it be that, linked to such suffering, her face is still the face of happiness for me?”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“I did not love you out of boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.”— Alessandro Baricco, amazon.com
“It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.”— Thomas Paine, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“There's a party in my mind, and I hope it never stops There's a party up there all the time, and they'll party until they drop”— David Byrne, open.spotify.com
“I don't like to feel so crazy about someone. I don't like to feel like my happiness is so tied up in another person.”— Gabrielle Zevin, amazon.com
“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”— Tom Bodett, amazon.com
“If you could make one person feel better today, with on good deed. Just imagine if every one in the world did the exact same thing. Every person in the world would have a better day. A world of inspiration, love and hope.”— William Chapman, williamchapmanwritings.tumblr.com
“Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak And I seem to find the happiness I seek.”— Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, open.spotify.com
“I was never so alive as when I was winning this throne, or so dead as now that I've won it.”— George R. R. Martin, Robert Baratheon, amazon.com
“It was the kind of kiss I could never tell my friends about out loud. It was the kind of kiss that made me know I was never so happy in my whole life.”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com