“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, amazon.com
“As the pen traces out words on the paper, your anguish disappears and your happiness remains.”— Paulo Coelho, paulocoelhoblog.com
“One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can…”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, goodreads.com
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.”— Robert Jordan, amazon.com
“I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.”— D. H. Lawrence, culturedvultures.com
“I’m choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I’m making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.”— Ally Condie, amazon.com
“The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”— Thich Nhat Hanh, en.wikiquote.org
“Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.”— David Levithan, Rachel Cohn, amazon.com
“She believed a great happiness awaited her somewhere, and for this reason she remained calm as the days flew by.”— Gyula Krúdy, amazon.com
“You may not realize it now, but you deserve to be whole again. You owe it to yourself to be happy again”— Alessandra Nicasio, thoughtcatalog.com
“Don’t ever put your happiness in someone else’s hands. They’ll drop it. They’ll drop it every time.”— Christopher Barzak, amazon.com