“When her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that single moment when I first kissed the girl of my dreams and knew that my love would last forever.”— Nicholas Sparks`, amazon.com
“I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can’t go through another of those terrible times. And I shan’t recover this time… I can’t go on spoiling your life any longer. I don’t think two people could have been happier than we have been.”— Virginia Woolf, brainpickings.org
“After everything he's been through he deserves to be happy, I will never begrudge him happiness, I only wish it could be with me.”— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com
“They’re a match, they’re a set. They’re happy, I can tell. They’re what I used to be, they’re Tom and me five years ago. They’re what I lost, they’re everything I want to be.”— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com
“One minute I’m ticking along fine and life is sweet and I want for nothing, and the next I can’t wait to get away, I’m all over the place, slipping and sliding again.’”— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com
“I'd experienced joy, but not nearly enough, could there ever be enough?”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“Being able to laugh at yourself makes everything a little easier. Nothing is more exhausting than someone who takes things too seriously. Laugh at yourself. Make fun of yourself. You’ll be happier.”— Kendra Syrdal, thoughtcatalog.com
“But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of o…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I’ve seen just how sad a lot of people are deep down. Just how much they wish their life was some other way. We’re all going in circles being jealous of what others have. As the saying goes, the grass is always greener… It’s a really miserable way to live.”— Sabina Alexis, anewmode.com
“We don’t have access to their real lives; instead, we have access to the idealized, filtered, highlight reel of their lives. And even though we know that what we see on social media isn’t ‘real,’ it can really have a strong, often negative, effect on us.”— Sabrina Alexis, anewmode.com
“A key ingredient to genuine happiness is gratitude—being happy with what you have. A key ingredient to being miserable is coveting what someone else has, and thinking you aren’t enough.”— Sabrina Alexis, anewmode.com
“I read once that you need two things to be happy: any two of health, money, and love. You can cover the absense of one with the other two... But now I realized this was unmitigated bullshit, because health and money did not compare with love at all.”— Max Barry, amazon.com
“You will realize one day that all the money in the world cannot buy you happiness. Nor can it make you a person of good character.”— Richelle E. Goodrich, amazon.com
“Most research subjects strongly believe that another $30,000 a year in income would make them much happier. And they feel equally strongly that adding a 30-minute walk to their daily routine would be of trivial import. And yet Dr. Gilbert’s research suggests that the added income is far less likely…”— Kerry Patterson, amazon.com
“Top fifteen things money can’t buy: Time. Happiness. Inner peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity.”— Roy T. Bennett, amazon.com
“When we have light and joy in our hearts, we don't need material wealth. The most loving communities are often the poorest.”— Jean Vanier, amazon.com
“You can be happy with money and you can be wretched with it. It depends on what kind of person you are.”— Taylor Caldwell, amazon.com
“Often people attempt to live their lives backwards, they try to have more things or more money in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are then do what you need to do in order to have what you want…”— Margaret Young, books.google.com
“Not having money to spend doesn’t mean we can’t have well-spent moments every day.”— Sarah Ban Breathnach, amazon.com