“Some dont want to be happy, inasmuch as they undergo happiness merely as languor and yawning. They are dissatisfied with a bland and vacuous state of glee and, instead, prefer to keep on running li...”

“Is happiness a sort of blissful state of mind or just a kind of surreal propensity? It may be hard to recognize its very nature, if we remain guilelessly confined in a state of woeful unawareness o...”

“We need not be afraid of expecting the unexpected, but let us wheedle each instant we enjoy and endear each happy moment we encounter; let us watch each step we take and each move we make, ever sin...”

“We only realize what happiness is about, after it has slammed the door to our inattention; and killing silence has deafened the tunefulness of our life. ("Happy days are back again")”

“When love has left us in the lurch and nothing ever strikes a chord anymore, we may come to realize a vacuum of the lost vibrations of happiness and an absence of the ethereal and exalting feel of ...”

“Fear has always been a very important whistleblower. Our emotion and our history can provoke fear that may arrest us at any time or at any place. Above and beyond, fear might be contagious and its ...”

“Why don't I just go against all reason, ignore past experiences and fall in love with you?”

“Hope is one of our central emotions, but we are often at a loss when asked to define it. Many of us confuse hope with optimism, a prevailing attitude that "things turn out for the best." But hope d...”

“It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.”

“But you dont have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.You dont have to assume the worst about everyone, either. The world isnt always out to get you.”

“I always assumed everybody shared my love for overcast skies. It came as a shock to find out that some people prefer sunshine.”

“Be careful of what you assume, what you assume often becomes what you consume”

“Our incredible bewilderment (wilderness separation) blinds us from seeing that our many personal and global problems primarily result from our assault of and separation from the natural creation pr...”

“Sorry is the day, and full of lament, when the young have to guard themselves from being food for the old.I am moved to bewilderment, when I glance my eyes upon a society that kills its young, and ...”

“With the sensation that he was passing through the Looking-Glass, Max stared at his father as if he had never seen him beforesimultaneously impressed and unnerved at the thought that, after all the...”