“When I talk to you I am happy. Because you listen, and my words find a home.”— Edmond Jabès, amazon.com
“I’m so afraid. Because I’m so profoundly happy. Happiness like this is frightening… They only let you this happy if they’re preparing to take something from you.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“I love you because you are you, and because you taught me how to understand…Thus you increased me..My eyes need [you]…and my heart is happy about you.”— Claude Monet, intermonet.com
“Sometimes it is the smallest thing that saves us: the weather growing cold, a child’s smile, and a cup of excellent coffee.”— Jonathan Carroll, goodreads.com
“Love doesn’t necessarily care whether you like it. It can bring you enormous grief. But you would never trade it for any other experience.”— Piers Anthony, amazon.com
“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”— Lao Tzu, amazon.com
“I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I? Can’t bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. Would you go back to then? Just beginning then. Would you?”— James Joyce, amazon.com
“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. 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
“I think by the time you’re grown you’re as happy as you’re going to be. You’ll have good times and bad times, but in the end you’ll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I’ve knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.”— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com
“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.”— Maya Angelou, facebook.com
“Old pictures look really rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem happier than you are.”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com
“The more I understand the mind and the human experience, the more I begin to suspect there is no such thing as unhappiness; there is only ungratefulness.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“When someone’s success makes you as happy as if it were your own, you know you’ve found someone worth holding on to.”— Charlotte Eriksson, goodreads.com
“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”— Maxim Gorky, amazon.com
“You should never care what a man thinks of you -- until he demonstrates to you that he cares about making you happy.”— Sherry Argov, amazon.com
“Your purpose is to be joyful. Your purpose is to live with ease. Your purpose is to surrender to the love of the Universe so you can live a happy life.”— Gabrielle Bernstein, amazon.com