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9d1e7dc If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present. live happy letting-go-of-the-past future inspiration inspirational-quotes life-and-living life-quotes living happiness life inspirational living-in-the-present living-now living-life living-life-to-the-fullest worry focus Roy T. Bennett
ff128ce Don't waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy. time happy inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking optimism happiness life inspirational anger worry grudge regret Roy T. Bennett
71c4205 I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be. happy sad Stephen Chbosky
f0bc2df Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now. happy inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking optimism happiness life inspirational living-now Roy T. Bennett
fc9628c Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude. mind happy inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking optimism happiness life inspirational attitude mindset Roy T. Bennett
f9f1a88 Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never. understanding men happy sadness ladies William Shakespeare
e3abdc2 If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. happy inspirational Roald Dahl
46645b5 You cannot be with someone just because you don't want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about. happy heartbreak love hurt self Melissa de la Cruz
45a371d Nothing makes a person happier than having a happy heart. happy-heart happy inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking optimism happiness heart life inspirational Roy T. Bennett
d1e379a Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you. happy happiness inspirational Hafez
87218e3 So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness. pain happy happiness life feel taste little strong F. Scott Fitzgerald
82a9244 you might want to decide fast. We live in a dangerous world. If you see a chance to be happy, you have to fight for it, so later you have no regrets. happy joy life no-regrets enjoy-life enjoyment fight Ilona Andrews
1832b8a If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three. happy visit friend anticipation Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
91d9765 I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy. happy life miserable sad Holly Black
2d721a2 He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight. happy life wild Jon Krakauer
3b49d78 Something amazing happens when you're in love and don't give a damn about what day it is anymore. happy life love inspirational amazing Chad Sugg
b2af367 "Frank heard a laugh behind him. He glanced back and couldn't believe what he saw. Nico di Angelo was actually smiling. "That's more like it," Nico said. "Let's turn this tide!" fate happy destiny happiness tides-have-turned blessing turning-point heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson frank-zhang house-of-hades nico-di-angelo rick-riordan battle surprise fortune luck Rick Riordan
efa31d2 "I get so god damn lonely and sad and filled with regrets some days. It overwhelms me as I'm sitting on the bus; watching the golden leaves from a window; a sudden burst of realisation in the middle of the night. I can't help it and I can't stop it. I'm alone as I've always been and sometimes it hurts.... but I'm learning to breathe deep through it and keep walking. I'm learning to make things nice for myself. To comfort my own heart when I wake up sad. To find small bits of friendship in a crowd full of strangers. To find a small moment of joy in a blue sky, in a trip somewhere not so far away, a long walk an early morning in December, or a handwritten letter to an old friend simply saying "I thought of you. I hope you're well." No one will come and save you. No one will come riding on a white horse and take all your worries away. You have to save yourself, little by little, day by day. Build yourself a home. Take care of your body. Find something to work on. Something that makes you excited, something you want to learn. Get yourself some books and learn them by heart. Get to know the author, where he grew up, what books he read himself. Take yourself out for dinner. Dress up for no one but you and simply feel nice. it's a lovely feeling, to feel pretty. You don't need anyone to confirm it. lovely gratitude happy trying feelings depression joy books learning life-quotes sadness friendship heart heal anxiety-disorder being-happy bus december mental-wellness panic-attacks minimalism breath deep self-care mindfulness healing prose plan breathing growing-up well sky worrying worries emotions panic moment regret learn recovery lonely sad night mental-health letters Charlotte Eriksson
215dc3c May the fleas of a thousand camels invade the crotch of the person that ruins your day. And may their arms be to short too scratch revenge happy humour strife funny humor inspirational amusing malediction anger Keisha Keenleyside
66fec3c Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want us to be happy. He wants us to be lovable. Worthy of love. Able to be loved by Him. We don't start off being all that lovable, if we're honest. What makes people hard to love? Isn't it what is commonly called selfishness? Selfish people are hard to love because so little love comes out of them. happy god love selfish selfishness William Nicholson
44e7b6f "I was just thinking if the sex with you is one-tenth as fun as arguing with you. I'll be one happy bastard." "You'll never find out. You--------" He kissed me. ~ Jack Travis & Ella Varner" sex kiss happy jack-travis Lisa Kleypas
c3be0cb Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don't have to do it, but it's here if you choose to come back to it. happy work happiness something job Ilona Andrews
f3226eb "Right, you've got a crooked sort of cross..." He consulted Unfogging the Future. "That means you're going to have 'trials and suffering' -- sorry about that -- but there's a thing that could be the sun... hang on... that means 'great happiness'... so you're going to suffer but be very happy..." "You need your Inner Eye tested, if you ask me," said Ron, and they both had to stifle their laughs as Professor Trelawney gazed in their direction." suffering happy humor ron-weasley J.K. Rowling
11d734d Anyone who is having troubles should pray. Anyone who is happy should sing praises. Anyone who is sick should call the church's elders. They should pray for and pour oil on the person in the name of the Lord. And the prayer that is said with faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will heal that person. And if the person has sinned, the sins will be forgiven. Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so God can heal you. When a believing person prays, great things happen. (James 5:13-16) happy prayer faith inspiration spirituality heal healing troubles miracles pray sing sin Anonymous
fa2043d The most important thing is this: to be able at any moment to be free to choose a life that makes you happy. happy live-life-happy choice inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking optimism happiness life inspirational choose Roy T. Bennett
802b992 But you're dead,' said Harry. 'Oh, yes,' said Dumbledore matter-of-factly. 'Then... am I dead too?' 'Ah,' said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly. 'That is the question, isn't it? On the whole, dear boy, I think not. happy dumbledore J.K. Rowling
8bbbf3e And sure, I know if you eat this way you'll die. So? If you don't eat this way you're still going to die. Why not die happy? happy unhealthy eat Robert Fulghum
fa35683 "Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy." [ happy mind-travel book idea company J.K. Rowling
73a923e "He tells me I look as if I could use a hugand i laugh at him and he ignores me and steps forward and puts his arms around me and hugs me. I warm at the simple pleasure of human contact and for the first time in a long time i actually feel good." (James Frey, pg.38)" happy hug James Frey
f1aab35 "I think we deserve a happily-ever-after." "If anyone ever did, it's us." happy love Jodi Picoult
06cdceb A person who goes in search of God is wasting his time. He can walk a thousand roads and join many religions and sects-but he'll never find God that way. God is here, right now, at our side. We can see Him in this mist, in the ground we're walking on, even in my shoes. His angels keep watch while we sleep and help us in our work. In order to find God, you have only to look around. But meeting Him is not easy. The more God asks us to participate in His mysteries, the more disoriented we become, because He asks us constantly to follow our dreams and our hearts. And that's difficult to do when we're used to living in a different way. Finally we discover, to our surprise, that God wants us to be happy, because He is the father. happy dreams god mysteries search person hearts father Paulo Coelho
c742bd0 "I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy." silence happy human truth terribly strangers-on-a-train patricia-highsmith train strangers Patricia Highsmith
db9de52 That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself. happy fun friends books funny quote friendship life love gossip-girl book quotes knowledge Cecily von Ziegesar
8857d4e Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands. happy women Louisa May Alcott
36a6e21 People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy. pain suffering happy joy happiness relief Ayn Rand
ab4411c I would apologize for my rudeness, if I had any manners. Happily, I don't. happy manners rudeness Tamora Pierce
a622528 It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together. laughter happy joy friendship true-friend crying sad Lois Lowry
9ed917c He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love. happy love insecure line-of-beauty insecurity sad Alan Hollinghurst
69b9310 He tapped my chest. 'Happy is here.' He tapped his own chest. 'Here.' I looked down past my chin. 'Inside?' 'Inside.' It was getting crowded in there. First angel. Now happy. It seemed there was more to me than cabbage and turnips. happy milkweed warsaw Jerry Spinelli
d7c83bb "I had to work so hard to find myself again, Alexandr." There was pain in her voice. "I was so lost without you. You left me raw and wounded and trapped in a dark place with no windows or doors. I didn't know how to live without you. I didn't know how to smile or feel or be. It took almost two years before I really accepted that it was over and I had to find a way to go on. I made myself strong. I'm alive again. I can wake up some mornings and be happy. I can look at the ocean and find peace again. Now you're asking me to risk everything all over again and I'm not certain I could survive if it all came crashing down." happy love go-on peace lost Christine Feehan
1366f2e Okay, if this is what falling in love feels like, someone please kill me now. (Not literally, overzealous readers.) But it was all too much--too much emotion, too much happiness, too much longing, perhaps too much ice cream... happy feelings happiness love ice-cream-is-love ice-cream James Patterson
2d44a16 "Claire, I-Look, my life is one long series of screw-ups and bad decisions, and I know that. I own that. But you...I just want you to be happy. And it cuts me when you're not." "I'm happy with you." She heard the smile in his voice this time. "So what do you really want? A storybook life in Vampireville, with your life on the line every day and a half?" "I'm considering it," she said. And she was." happy shane-collins Rachel Caine
bacd61f But some things are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself. happy think-for-yourself Jon Krakauer
91c3c53 These two things are almost all I want, but unfortunately, neither one is my strong suit. I am very strong on blame, and wish this were one of God's values, but trust, surrender? Letting go, forgiveness? Maybe just after a period of prayer, but then when the mood passes and real life rears its ugly head again? Not so much. I hate this, the fact that life is usually Chutes and Ladders, with no guaranteed gains. I cannot will myself into having these qualities, so I have to pray for them more often, if I want to be happy. I have to create the habit, just as I had to do with daily writing, and flossing. happy prayer letting-go trust forgiveness surrender Anne Lamott
c2408ae At any rate, Therese thought, she was happier than she ever had been before. And why worry about defining everything? labels happy fluid-sexuality patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt lesbian lgbt sexuality Patricia Highsmith
809c110 I loved you when I was eight. I loved you when I was twelve. I loved you when I was twenty, and I... I love you now. happy love in-love Jennifer L. Armentrout
e4de27a "I need a break after school," she told me later. "School is hard because a lot of people are in the room, so you get tired. I freak out if my mom plans a play date without telling me, because I don't want to hurt my friends' feelings. But I'd rather stay home. At a friend's house you have to do the things other people want to do. I like hanging out with my mom after school because I can learn from her. She's been alive longer than me. We have thoughtful conversations. I like having conversations because they make people happy." happy thoughts feelings learning play mom introverts quiet introvert home thoughtful school Susan Cain
f162cad It was a flight, a kind of fleeing, a kind of falling, falling higher and higher, spinning off the edge of the earth and beyond the sun and through the vast silent vacuum where there were no burdens and where everything weighed exactly nothing. happy freedom inspiration living happiness life love inspirational flying book fly falling Tim O'Brien
9d30757 She was spoiled, but she wasn't lazy. She knew what she wanted, and because she believed absolutely that she could have everything she wanted if she tried hard enough to get it, she never stopped trying. woman happy fun friends books funny quote strength friendship life love gossip-girl book quotes knowledge Cecily von Ziegesar
1e1dda3 Seven billion who need to be kept happy, and docile, until the end. How do you do that? What's the best way to calm down a scared kid, get them to go back to sleep? Tell them a story. Some shit about Jesus or whatever. sleep story happy people jesus funny religion truth docile frightened population terrifying delusion terrified dying scared Neal Stephenson
ea73fdd People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see the darkness and the spider-face beyond and the great web of it all. That there's always this if you scratch at the surface of happiness and goodness. The black and the black and the black. happy good dark people goodness darkness happiness fused grab grabbing scratch spider lights beyond web distraction see black surface distracted John Fowles
05c0ee2 Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy. libraries happy bookstores bookshelves Louis L'Amour
52c1a27 Happiness is self-contained and self-sufficient. Happy men have no time and no use for you. Happy men are free men. happy the-fountainhead Ayn Rand
bc1e394 Free time was the most precious time, when you should be doing what you loved, or at least slowing down enough to remember what made your life worthwhile and happy. happy Amy Tan
a67afa9 They all had their own struggles and stories to tell and they al made it to this point, happy and in love. happy happiness love Jennifer L. Armentrout
5b2759e It's lovely to be going home and know it's home. I love green gables already, and I've never loved any place before. Oh, Marilla, I'm so happy. lovely happy green-gables home L.M. Montgomery
7b99d9f Well, that was the end of me, the real end. Two pound ten every Tuesday and a room of the Gray's Inn Road. Saved, rescued and with my place to hide in - what more did I want? I crept in and hid. The lid of the coffin shut down with a bang. Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone. No more pawings, no more pryings - leave me alone. happy love successful left-alone rescued room saved end wish hide coffin beautiful Jean Rhys
d34484e Shout to the top! happy fun joy life shout cheer protest voice Rebecca McNutt
8dc9ca2 Happy! who can answer for that? Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to oneself... happy secret Alexandre Dumas
581d398 Life is so funny sometimes that you just have to laugh. live happy joy funny life laugh Rebecca McNutt
9eef0ee Oh, God, if I'm anything by a clinical name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I think people are plotting to make me happy. happy happiness paranoia J.D. Salinger
2a0a0e9 Most people are as happy as other people decide they should be. happy people social family-drama Rebecca McNutt
ab24c3b The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. -William Morris. happy secret life everyday genuine elevate hygge interest Louisa Thomsen Brits
b588e09 "Mamoon went on, "The news I bring is to say that, man being the only animal who hates himself, the likely fate of the world is total self-destruction." He raised his glass. "All the best then, my friends. Here's to a happy apocalypse." "Happy apocalypse," murmured the other guests, obediently." happy Hanif Kureishi
2a61589 It takes practice, feeling happy about the ever enfolding events of life, and, because of all the conditioning we have undergone before this, it may be very difficult to make the change, but if we take the saying to heart and practice it, as the days unfold we will find ourselves living ever happier lives, smiling more, and finally, laughing more. happy happiness life wisdom i-ching wu-wei smile health Wu Wei
994dfd4 Well, let's argue this out, Mr Blank. You, who represent Society, have the right to pay me four hundred francs a month. That's my market value, for I am an inefficient member of Society, slow in the uptake, uncertain, slightly damaged in the fray, there's no denying it. So you have the right to pay me four hundred francs a month, to lodge me in a small, dark room, to clothe me shabbily, to harass me with worry and monotony and unsatisfied longings till you get me to the point when I blush at a look, cry at a word. We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were. Isn't it so, Mr Blank? There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours. Some must cry so that the others may be able to laugh the more heartily. happy fun happiness damaged harass inefficient pay longings monotony slow cry worry rich society job Jean Rhys
afb6385 The morning was a wretched time of day for him. He feared it and it never brought him any good. On no morning of his life had he ever been in good spirits nor done any good before midday, nor ever had a happy idea, nor devised any pleasure for himself or others. By degrees during the afternoon he warmed and became alive, and only towards evening, on his good days, was he productive active and sometimes, aglow with joy. happy independence morning-person night-owl steppenwolf morning evening Hermann Hesse
cc3d768 I felt so damn happy all of a sudden, the way old Phoebe kept going around and around. I was damn near bawling, I felt so damn happy, if you want to know the truth. happy bawling felt going kept near sudden J.D. Salinger
6ed78c9 Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosages of dangerous medicine but through an honest reckoning of the self. happy honesty hope life love confess recover rigourous-honesty heal broken-hearted pathetic treatment healing delusion tragic self-hate denial wound scars Dennis Lehane
5495e15 Any single happy experience may be amplified or minimized, depending on how much attention you give it. happy happiness mindfulness Gretchen Rubin
18fa1bd She'd have the two of them eating out of her shoe. I've watched her in action, but I could never get away with it. And, I console myself, being cute hasn't made her all that happy. happy pretty Michael Dorris
3176af5 "Noticing Cooper watching me, I paused mid-chew. "You really are happy, aren't you, baby?" "Yes," I said, stroking his shirt and feeling giddy. I'd never imagined I would share anything like this day with anyone, let alone someone as beautiful as Cooper. "Are you happy?" "If you're happy, I'm happy. That's how men are. They like when their women are content." "Did your dad tell you that?" "Oh, yeah. Pop hasn't stayed married all these years by being a fool." happy Bijou Hunter
252f95c "We can make each other happy, Farah," Cooper said, lying between my legs and swinging his feet like a kid. His expression was tender as he teased my nipples. "I know you're mine. If you let me start over, we can be so fucking happy that all the shit that came before will be no more than a bad dream." "I'm afraid to love you too much." "It's normal to be scared when you grew up in a shitty way. I bet you spent most of your life worrying that anything nice might get stolen away. With me, with what we have, it's probably scary. For me though, losing you is the only thing that scares the shit out of me. I need to make you happy so you'll stay and I can be happy." happy Bijou Hunter
ad9643d ..I buried myself in accomplishments, because with accomplishments, I believed I could control things, I could squeeze in every last piece of happiness before I got sick and died.. which I figured was my natural fate. fate happy achieve death life perspective control thought Mitch Albom
e9e3df0 Joan has a right to love whom she likes, and to go where she likes and to work and be independent and happy, and if she can't be happy then she has a right to make her own unhappiness; it's a thousand times better to be unhappy in your own way than to be happy in someone else's. unhappiness happy independence freedom happiness love unhappy Radclyffe Hall
bc50156 It's hard to be happy in the now when you can't stop worrying about the future. What I want is to trust that everything will work out. To believe with all my heart that I'll end up where I belong. happy future inspirational Lisa Schroeder
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