“Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.”— Helen Keller, amazon.com
“Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes real happiness. It is not obtained through self gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”— Helen Keller, amazon.com
“the art of smiling and nodding when someone brings their name up in conversation.”— Rupi Kaur, amazon.com
“Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?”— Audrey Niffenegger, amazon.com
“Five simple rules to be happy: - Free your heart from hatred. - Free your mind from worries. - Live simply. - Give more. - Expect less.”— Unknown, 1000lifehacks.com
“Can you see it yet, how hard I will always work to make you happy.”— Tyler Knott Gregson, tylerknott.com
“Would you listen if I explained that we are magic and that magic is something that doesn’t require belief to be real, but requires that we make it day in and day out and maybe, just maybe, true magic is the disappearance of two people and the triumphant reemergence with great fanfare and the twirl o…”— Tyler Knott Gregson, thoughtcatalog.com
“How do I tell you what it feels like to know that you, You, have always been so much that happiness without you is a statistical impossibility, that once I met you my heart left my chest and flew directly into yours.”— Tyler Knott Gregson, thoughtcatalog.com
“I thought about all the things I love...I kept listing everything in my mind until I felt amazing.”— Rhonda Byrnes, amazon.com
“Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“It’s easy to dismiss religion as bloody, cruel, and tribal. I’ve done it myself. But it isn’t religion that’s wired that way – it’s man himself. At bottom every faith is a form of instruction in common decency. Different textbooks in the same class. Don’t they all teach that to do for others feels b…”— Joe Hill, amazon.com
“It’s so fucking cheap when people say I love you. It’s a name to stick on a surge of hormones, with a little hint of loyalty thrown in. I’ve never liked saying it. Here’s what I say: We’re together, now and until the end. You have everything I need to be happy. You make me feel right.”— Joe Hill, amazon.com
“She'd thought love had something to do with happiness, but it turned out they were not even vaguely related. Love was closer to a need, no different from the need to eat, to breathe.”— Joe Hill, amazon.com
“Sex feels good. And when you feel good, you feel happier, right? Right. If you feel like having sex, and the opportunity presents itself, why not? Sometimes we really don't need a reason for something other than we want to because we like it. And that's okay! You don't need to prove yourself to anyo…”— Jessica Booth, gurl.com
“She had the sort of broad and guileful smile in which you couldn't help but believe—you just wanted to make her happy so you could keep seeing it.”— John Green, Colin Singleton, amazon.com
“You know what? I'm done being made responsible for your unhappiness.”— Jack Thorne, Harry Potter, amazon.com
“I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they have ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.”— Khloé Kardashian, amazon.com