“Is happiness something that can be learnt, or acquired by habituation, or cultivated in some other way?”— Aristotle, amazon.com
“How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn’t want or need anything from them.”— Gail Godwin, goodreads.com
“I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.”— Conor Oberst, genius.com
“But some things are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.”— Jon Krakauer, amazon.com
“The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.”— Bertrand Russell, amazon.com
“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”— Daniel Keyes, amazon.com
“Try to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.”— Sydney Smith, amazon.com
“I like cancelled plans. And empty bookstores. I like rainy days and thunderstorms. And quiet coffee shops. I like messy beds and over-worn pajamas. Most of all, I like the small joys that a simple life brings.”— Anonymous, c0ntemplations.tumblr.com
“The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.”— J.M. Coetzee, goodreads.com
“All of life is about ending up somewhere you didn’t expect, and learning to just be happy with it.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness. And yet I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.”— Frederic Chopin, amazon.com
“People who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“If you’re happy, if you’re feeling good, then nothing else matters.”— Robin Wright, robinrare.tumblr.com
“Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.”— Sarah Addison Allen, amazon.com
“Sometimes we have to truly wallow in our misery so we can learn how to bask in our happiness. Sometimes we have to lose all hope before we find unwavering faith.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“Whenever you’re feeling lonely or sad, try going to the loft on a beautiful day and looking outside. Not at the houses and the rooftops, but at the sky. As long as you can look fearlessly at the sky, you’ll know that your pure within and will find happiness once more.”— Anne Frank, amazon.com