“Funny, how it took a little bit of pain to remember that certain parts of yourself were alive.”— Adi Alsaid, amazon.com
“I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty.”— Harlan Ellison, amazon.com
“When you're together, it seems so effortless. It's not forced in any way. You just vibe off of each other. Like, its crazy good.”— Stephen Brennan, collegetimes.com
“Apparently, gaining control can have a positive impact on one’s health and well-being, but losing control can be worse than never having had any at all.”— Daniel Gilbert, amazon.com
“You see that girl, she looks so happy right? But inside she's dying. She's hurt and tired.”— Jayne Higgins, amazon.com
“What do you want? You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. You can't want only to love, because that's impossible. What do you want?”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Sex is better with someone you love for the exact reason that literally everything is better with someone you love.”— Tom, thoughtcatalog.com
“The thing I noticed the most about having sex with someone I loved for the first time was that there was real humor and happiness involved. Like, we joked and smiled the whole way through”— Nathan, thoughtcatalog.com
“I was too miserable to take much consolation just from feeling good for a moment.”— Anne Rice, amazon.com
“Today's forecast: Sunny w/ a chance that for a moment you'll feel really great about yourself & your life. Savor those moments as they come.”— Night Vale podcast, twitter.com
“Crying turns to laughing and laughing to crying - if the storm is intense enough, all the fuses in the house blow.”— Sarah Manguso, amazon.com
“Fuck opportunity. This moment right now is beautiful and perfect. It’s not an opportunity. It’s already happening whether you like it or not — so you might as well like it.”— Daniel Coffeen, thoughtcatalog.com
“I think and think and think. I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“People would be happier and healthier if they took more time off and spent it with their family and friends.”— Jonathan Haidt, amazon.com
“The world is increasingly designed to depress us. Happiness isn’t very good for the economy. If we were happy with what we had, why would we need more? How do you sell an anti-aging moisturizer? You make someone worry about aging. How do you get people to vote for a political party? You make them wo…”— Matt Haig, amazon.com
“Every human being has the right to search for happiness, and by happiness is meant something that makes that individual feel content, not necessarily something that makes other people feel content.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com