“We're not going to burn down the suburbs and live in lean-tos, we'd probably be happier if we did, but we're not going to.”— Sebastian Junger, youtube.com
“A lot of people are kind of depressed. I’m happy some of the time, and some of the time I’m not.”— Elliott Smith, blankonblank.org
“What made you sad is just as important as with what made you happy.”— Juansen Dizon, wnq-writers.com
“If you think that happiness means total peace, you will never be happy. Peace comes from the acceptance of the part of you that can never be at peace.”— Joss Whedon, youtube.com
“It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.”— Jane Fonda, addicted2success.com
“I believe that today we're facing a psychological epidemic, one in which people no longer realize it's okay for things to suck sometimes.”— Mark Manson, amazon.com
“You can't be an important and life-changing presence for some people without being a joke and an embarrassment to others. You just can't.”— Mark Manson, amazon.com
“The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one's negative experience is itself a positive experience.”— Mark Manson, amazon.com
“When you make the decision to leave, when you realize that you are in charge of your own happiness and that you can decide who you keep in your life, you will be eternally grateful to yourself.”— Chrissy Sharma, thoughtcatalog.com
“Believe it or not, but you actually had a life before him. You lived for yourself. You were the cause of your own happiness. You put a smile on your own damn face.”— Sara Di Tullio, thoughtcatalog.com
“Is an eagle and a salmon level? Does the salmon ever get to eat the eagle? No. The universe does not want even! It wants conflict and resolution and constant improvement. Okay?”— Joe Rogan, imdb.com
“I for one am afraid that our American culture’s overemphasis on happiness at the expense of sadness might be dangerous, a wanton forgetting of an essential part of a full life. I further am wary in the face of this possibility: to desire only happiness in a world undoubtedly tragic is to become inau…”— Eric G. Wilson, amazon.com
“If you are not happy or fulfilled with your marriage, partner or love life, it can have a negative effect on your libido. Some women need an emotional connection with their partner to feel aroused.”— Maggie Lynn, livestrong.com
“Deciding whether or not to offer a second chance to your partner truly depends on what he or she did to get in this position in the first place. No judgements here; if you feel whatever he or she did wasn't serious enough to ruin the foundation of your relationship, it's worth taking the time to thi…”— Sara Altschule, bustle.com
“I can’t hate you for leaving because life is too short to hold onto things and people that don’t fill our hearts with happiness and purpose.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.”— Ann Brashares, amazon.com
“Sometimes the only reason why you won't let go of someone making you sad is because he was the only one that once made you happy.”— Lily Amis, amazon.com
“My happiness is trying to catch me but my anxiety is running too fast.”— Dagmara Cielecka, instagram.com
“Why can not we feel too much happiness? Too much joy? Too much pride? Why do we always have to choose too much pain? Maybe it is because pain is the only emotion making us feel alive – making us feel that there is something inside of us is damaged but still works. Maybe it is because we crave for a…”— Dyn Lagrimas, thoughtcatalog.com
“Sometimes pain is so unmanageable that the idea of spending another day with it seems impossible. Other times pain acts as a compass to help you get through the messier tunnels of growing up. But the pain can only help you find happiness if you can remember it.”— Adam Silvera, amazon.com