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“He had awoken too late for happiness, but not for strength, and could feel an austere joy, as of a warrior who is homeless but stands fully armed.”
“When my mother didn't come back I realized that any moment could be the last. Nothing in life should simply be a passage from one place to another. Each walk should be taken as if it is the only th...”
“The greenest of pastures are right here on earth.”
“There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reas...”
“I wish I had never been born," she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness," said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment...”
“You would not want to be responsible for someone else’s happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours!”
“The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.”
“To fill the hour──that is happiness.”
“Le bonheur est cette danse où l'on s'approche et l'on s'écarte sans se perdre. Il est même fait des larmes des longues séparations à condition que viennent les retrouvailles.”
“You need to figure out what you want, Josh. If that means you need to swim against the tide to get it, at least youre aiming for something that could make you very happy.”
“I've always believed that happiness is just around the corner. The trick is fining the right corner.”
“Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.”
“She couldn't avoid being serious about things she cared for, and happiness made her grave at the thought of all the things which might destroy it.”
“The best way to insure you achieve the greatest satisfaction out of life is to behave intentionally.”
“One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.”
“Three weeks ago, he’d seen hail fall from the sky, onlyto be followed minutes later by a spectacular rainbow that seemed to frame the azalea bushes. The colors, so vivid they seemed almost alive, m...”
“Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. Happiness is not the satisfaction of whatever irrational wishes you might blindly attempt to indulge. Happiness is a state of non-...”
“I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table." Macbeth”
“It's not strength, it's PERCEPTION that makes you stronger. If you change how you SEE it, you'll change how you FEEL about it.”
“An empty bus hurtles through the starry nightPerhaps the driver is singingand happy because he sings.”
