“ To die, he thought, was to escape passion's grasp, but that was the last thing he wanted. Instead he wished to be seized by passion and pinioned, held in its palm forever—he could not imagine any othe… David Guterson
“ There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it's not nice to be surrounded by things that are worn out or stained or used up. Gretchen Rubin
“ There are a good many people of the same kind as Harry. Many artists are of his kind. These persons all have two souls, two beings within them. Thee is God and the devil in them; the mother's blood an… Hermann Hesse
“ Then I’ll have more fun searching in vain then marrying one of the wrong sort. Erle Stanley Gardner
“ Still others reflected on how quickly the food could be snatched from a man's table, or the child from a woman's breast, or the wife from a man's bedcloset, that no strength of grasp could hold these… Jane Smiley
“ Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, lat… Julian Barnes
“ I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories, my knowledge of my mother would be faded and soft, with a few sharp memories s… Audrey Niffenegger
“ They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations. Gretchen Rubin
“ What is happiness other than a negotiation between reality and your dreams? It's understanding that you give up something for something else. I feel like that's been how I've been trying to be happy,… Mark Ruffalo
“ I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace. Jackie Joyner-Kersee
“ Employment... is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery. Robert Burton
“ Happiness ... loves to see men work. She loves sweat weariness self-sacrifice. She will not be found in the palaces but lurking in cornfields and factories and hovering over littered desks. David Grayson
