“I like to sit at the airport. I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the…”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“It seems like the better it gets, the more miserable people become. There’s never a technological advancement where people think, ‘Wow, we can finally do this!’ … And I think a lot of it has to do with advertising. Americans have it constantly drilled into our heads, every fucking day, that we deser…”— Eric Spitznagel, vanityfair.com
“I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”— Alexandre Dumas, amazon.com
“It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.”— J.M. Barrie, amazon.com
“The Rainbow Fish shared his scales left end right. And the more he gave away, the more delighted he became.”— Marcus Pfister, amazon.com
“I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.”— L. Frank Baum, amazon.com
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”— Robert A. Heinlein, amazon.com
“Each day I wondered what would happen next. What happens when you stop wanting, when you are happy. I supposed I would go on being happy forever. I knew I would not mess things up by growing bored. I had done that once before.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“You’ll notice that I haven’t talked about love. Or about happiness. I’ve talked about becoming - or remaining – the person who can be happy, a lot of the time, without thinking that being happy is what it’s all about. It’s not. It’s about becoming the largest, the most inclusive, most responsive per…”— Susan Sontag, graduationwisdom.com
“There are no happy endings, endings are the saddest part, so just give me a happy middle, and a very happy start.”— Shel Silverstein, amazon.com
“Clownlike, happiest on your hands, Feet to the stars, and moon-skulled, Gilled like a fish. A common-sense Thumbs-down on the dodo’s mode. Wrapped up in yourself like a spool, Trawling your dark as owls do.”— Sylvia Plath, poetryfoundation.org
“We only have one life. If we live an awful lot of it not doing something that would make us very happy, hurts no one and might actually be worth something in the general scheme of things, it’s pretty sad if we don’t do it, just because we might get our heads kicked in.”— Frieda Hughes, theguardian.com
“We are all in charge of our own happiness. Life does not happen to us, it happens for us!”— Rachel Brathen, amazon.com