“I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it.”— Michael J Fox, books.google.com
“The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.”— Michael J Fox, amazon.com
“Remember, though you, alone, are responsible for your own happiness, its still okay to feel responsible for someone else's.”— Michael J Fox, amazon.com
“My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.”— Michael J Fox, books.google.com
“There was a research article I read with the headline, ‘Love Is A Single Act Committed By Two Brains,’ because of the way oxytocin levels rose in a mother and a son when they hugged. I wish more poets became scientists.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.com
“There is no prose as inspiring as a single human being with the courage to live well.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.com
“What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“Happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be.”— Ellen Degeneres, books.google.com