People like to say love is unconditional, but it's not, and even if it was unconditional, it's still never free. There's always an expectation attached. They always want something in return. Like they want you to be happy or whatever and that makes you automatically responsible for their happiness because they won't be happy unless you are ... I just don't want that responsibility.
I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.
I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.
I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
All happiness depends on courage and work.
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.
Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.