“One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.”— John Milton, amazon.com
“Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.”— Orson Scott Card, amazon.com
“And I want to be happy. Like, seventy to eighty percent of the time. I want to be actively, thoughtfully happy.”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com
“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, amazon.com
“Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger th…”— Osho, thepowerofideas.ideapod.com
“When I talk to you I am happy. Because you listen, and my words find a home.”— Edmond Jabès, amazon.com
“I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“Sometimes we can’t find the thing that will make us happy, because we can’t let go of the thing that was supposed to.”— Robert Brault, bygeorgejournal.ca
“I’ve never been lonely. I like myself. I’m the best form of entertainment I have.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.”— Pat Conroy, amazon.com
“And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I’d probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.”— J. D. Salinger, amazon.com
“Happiness begins with you. Not with your relationship, your friends, or your job. but with you.”— Mandy Hale, amazon.com
“I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.”— Mary Shelley, amazon.com