“Because if you’re lucky enough to have people in your life that make you happy, that inspire you, that move you, you need to devour each moment you have together because you never know how many of those moments you have left. These people are sacred.”— Katie Kacvinsky, purplebuddhaproject.tumblr.com
“So, what if, instead of thinking about solving your whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com
“Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy.”— Ann Frank, amazon.com
“One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness: one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the worlds end somewhere, and holds fast to the days, as to fortune or fame.”— George N. Kates, amazon.com
“Happiness comes from living as you need to, as you want to. As your inner voice tells you to. Happiness comes from being who you actually are instead of who you think you are supposed to be.”— Shonda Rhimes, amazon.com
“Make choices that will make you happy for a long time, rather than just focusing on the next two seconds.”— Ray Sidney, graduationwisdom.com
“You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they seek suffering in the most joyous of places because they think they are unworthy of happiness.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Telling me I’m not allowed to be sad because there are other people out there who have it worse is like telling me I can’t be happy because other people have it better.”— Anonymous, facebook.com
“I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment — we are all defined by something we can’t change.”— Simon Van Booy, amazon.com
“Perhaps it is not necessary to franticly complete a to-do list. Perhaps it is not necessary to overly focus on the future or even focus on the future at all. Perhaps it’s more important to live the moments, to look for the meaning in the simple day-to-day moments.”— Monique Rainford-Bourne, thoughtcatalog.com
“You ruin your life by tolerating it. At the end of the day you should be excited to be alive. When you settle for anything less than what you innately desire, you destroy the possibility that lives inside of you, and in that way you cheat both yourself and the world of your potential.”— Bianca Sparacino, thoughtcatalog.com
“To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.”— Anthony Doerr, amazon.com
“For the animal to be happy it is enough that this moment be enjoyable. But man is hardly satisfied with this at all. He is much more concerned to have enjoyable memories and expectations — especially the latter. With these assured, he can put up with an extremely miserable present. Without this assu…”— Alan W. Watts, amazon.com
“If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.”— Alan W. Watts, amazon.com
“I am trying to get a jingle into your head. A furtive hammering hammering of words that should sound cheerful. They don't always come out cheerful. Sometimes your sadness is contagious and I feel I can't make a joke. If I don't find a gag in the swarm of daily misery, I start sinking into the mud of…”— Hector Abad, pushkinpress.com
“Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running - that’s the way to live.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.”— John Barrymore, brainyquote.com