“ They all know it is there, all the people of Omelas. Some of them have come to see it, others are content merely to know it is there. They all know that it has to be there. Some of them understand why… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Success is when you're seduced into thinking that your joy and satisfaction are not here but there--somewhere in the future, at some moment when you accomplish X or you win Y.Success can never get eno… Rob Bell
“ Sim, pensa Clarissa, está na hora deste dia acabar. Nós damos nossas festas; abandonamos nossas famílias para viver no Canadá; nós nos digladiamos para escrever livros que não mudam o mundo, a despeit… Michael Cunningham
“ 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. J.D. Salinger
“ I knew I wouldn't discover happiness in a faraway place or in unusual circumstances; it was right here, right now— as in the haunting play The Blue Bird, where two children spend a year searching the… Gretchen Rubin
“ I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite. Hermann Hesse
“ He finds it extraordinary that on some mornings, just after he has woken up, as he bends down to tie his shoes, he is flooded with a happiness so intense, a happiness so naturally and harmoniously at… Paul Auster
“ Any single happy experience may be amplified or minimized, depending on how much attention you give it. Gretchen Rubin
“ A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations. Jodi Picoult
“ It's so essential to happiness to speak your truth out loud - because this sharing of your core pain is what creates a necessary healing shift - from negative beliefs about the world - to positive bel… Karen Salmansohn
“ One of my key realizations about happiness, and a point oddly under-emphasized by positive psychologists, given its emphasis in popular culture, is that outer order contributes to inner calm. More tha… Gretchen Rubin
“ It was my interest in happiness that led me to the subject of habits, and of course, the study of habits is really the study of happiness. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life, and a… Gretchen Rubin
“ It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and ca… Thomas Carlyle
“ Some people think happiness is a luxury, but it's a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life. Christie Brinkley
“ There is much in the world to make us afraid. There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid. Frederick W Cropp
“ I was afraid to write Fear of Flying ergo I had to write it. I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it then I must do it. Erica Jong
“ I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him. Eleanor Roosevelt
