“I discovered that the best therapy is to be busy and productive. It seems to rewire your brain. It’s as if the lights go back on.”— Khloé Kardashian, amazon.com
“Just a friendly reminder that functioning under the impression that you must be happy all the time can stress you out. Relax. Feel what you're feeling and let it flow.”— Andrian Janog Jutba, facebook.com
“Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison. That even in exile, friendship exists and can become an anchor. That one instant before dying, man is still immortal.”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com
“I remember watching it all and getting that tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.com
“Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn't even show you the door, and you have to build it yourse…”— Gayle Forman, 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. And without these, lif…”— Harlan Ellison, amazon.com
“We think we want peace and silence, and freedom and leisure, but deep down we know that this would be unendurable to us, like a dark and empty room without distractions where we would be forced to confront ourselves, the one person we fear the most.”— Peter Kreeft, amazon.com
“Today would be perfect in every way. The Facebook photos wouldn't lie. So much joy. Her life had so much so joy. That was an actual verifiable fact.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com
“Just because a marriage ended didn't mean that it hadn't been happy at times.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com
“Some people live their entire life and never once feel how I felt every time he looked at me.”— Megan Hart, amazon.com
“We look at each other without saying anything, both of us smiling like idiots. I heart is so full I can’t believe it can possibly still beat without bursting right in front of me. My desire for him is so fierce I’m afraid to stand, because I know my knees will be too weak to hold me up, but there’s…”— Megan Hart, amazon.com
“At the end of the day, faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don’t really expect it. It’s like one day you realize the fairy tale may be slightly different than you dreamed of. The castle, well, it may not be a castle. And it’s not so important that it’s happy ever after just that it’s happy…”— Mimi Schmir, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, amazon.com
“I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted.”— Marilyn Monroe, theguardian.com
“A Leo absolutely loves being around people. This makes them the happiest. They also really enjoy watching their favorite shows with someone they love.”— January Nelson, thoughtcatalog.com
“Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.”— Nathaniel Hawthorne, reddit.com
“My idea of happiness is...never to have to do anything I don't wish to do.”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, amazon.com
“When we have joy we crave to share, we remember them.”— Sylvan Kamens, Rabbie Jack Riember, dignitymemorial.com