“Morning reminder: it’s not selfish doing what’s best for you and your happiness.”— Brittany Dawn, twitter.com
“Well, I know that if you think life is a vending machine, where you put in virtue and you get out happiness, then you're probably gonna be disappointed. I know that.”— Craig Wright, Maggie Sibley, Tina Holmes, imdb.com
“You both look so happy. Just enjoy it while it lasts. Which isn't very long. You think you have forever, but you don't. Soon you start to get on each other's nerves. Then you don't tell the other person as much as you used to, 'cause, really, what's the point? You thought they understood you, but th…”— Bruce Eric Kaplan, Ruth Fisher, Frances Conroy, imdb.com
“She’s the exclamation mark in the happiest sentence that I could ever possibly write.”— Michael Faudet, twitter.com
“It’s about the quality of the worry…I have happier worries now than I used to.”— David Gilmour, amazon.com
“There comes a time when every man needs to make a choice, whether it's a professional choice or whether it's a personal choice. In the end, it's about integrity, and it's about chasing after what you really want, even if that means showing you both care a little. And sometimes... well, sometimes you…”— Mike Schwartz, John 'J.D.' Dorian, Zach Braff, imdb.com
“Happiness lies within one's self, and the way to dig it out is cocaine.”— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com
“Truth is, people will never recognize what has changed within you, what makes you tick, what sets your heart and soul on fire, or what causes a rage within your bloodstream, unless they yearn to understand your soul.”— Kristin Michelle Elizabeth, thoughtcatalog.com
“You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you.”— Shams Tabrizi, amazon.com
“And that carries you through all the tough times, when you know that there's a place and people and food. There's somewhere you go where you know you'll always be happy. It's as good as it gets.”— Anthony Bourdain, amazon.com
“When I was much younger, I should probably have enjoyed the innocent gayeties of life, as much as most of my age.”— Martha Washington, amazon.com
“I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learnt from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds…”— Martha Washington, amazon.com
“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.”— Martha Washington, amazon.com
“In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause. In proportion as one loses himself in this way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.”— Booker T. Washington, amazon.com
“The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.”— Booker T. Washington, amazon.com
“The takeaway is simply this: We are inclined to assume that circumstances play the biggest role in our happiness, when research suggests they play the smallest role.”— Adam Sternbergh, thecut.com
“Our minds, it turns out, are very good at persuading us to follow intuitions about happiness that turn out to be entirely wrong.”— Adam Sternbergh, thecut.com
“There is happiness in heaven and earth, if only two creeds are followed: ‘Be just to your friend, make peace with your foe.’”— Hafiz of Persia, mystery-school.net