“Love yourself and treat yourself as you would treat your very best friend. You deserve the same love you give to others.”— Demi Lovato, amazon.com
“Life is precious and it's what you do with it that keeps you alive on the inside. It's not enough just to live and take that gift for granted. Each one of us has fears, but the more we work to overcome them, the more we are able to enjoy our lives.”— Demi Lovato, amazon.com
“I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.”— Demi Lovato, amazon.com
“Watch a movie that makes you laugh or listen to a song that makes you cry. Embrace your emotions and be proud of what you feel.”— Demi Lovato, amazon.com
“Stay strong, be brave, love hard and true, and you will have nothing to lose.”— Demi Lovato, amazon.com
“Go ahead and believe that no one shines brighter than you. Become amazing, and be happy”— Demi Lovato, amazon.com
“I have come to realize making yourself happy is most important. Never be ashamed of how you feel. You have the right feel any emotion you want, and do what makes you happy.”— Demi Lovato, amazon.com
“She is all interest, eagerness, vivacity, the world is to her a charm, a wonder, a mystery, a joy; she can’t speak for delight when she finds a new flower, she must pet it and caress it and smell it and talk to it, and pour out endearing names upon it. And she is color-mad: brown rocks, yellow sand,…”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Every man is a suffering-machine and a happiness- machine combined. The two functions work together harmoniously, with a fine and delicate precision, on the give-and-take principle.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.”— Vera Nazarian, books.google.com
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”— Jane Austen, amazon.com
“All the happiness in the world stems from wanting others to be happy, and all the suffering in the world stems from wanting the self to be happy.”— Timber Hawkeye, amazon.com
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”— Agatha Christie, amazon.com
“We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing... It is not books you need, it's some of the things that are in books. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“Sometimes the man who looks happiest in town, with the biggest smile, is the one carrying the biggest load of sin. There are smiles & smiles; learn to tell the dark variety from the light. The seal-barker, the laugh-shouter, half the time he's covering up.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it's our own true nature.”— Tara Brach, amazon.com
“The difference between misery & happiness depends on what we do with our attention.”— Sharon Salzberg, amazon.com