“ Poor May! he said.Poor? Why poor? she echoed with a strained laugh.Because I shall never be able to open a window without worrying you, he rejoined, laughing also.For a moment she was silent; then she… Edith Wharton
“ 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 momen… Neil Gaiman
“ Don't you think they're as bored as you are? You think you're somebody special? You think I wake up everyday so happy to see you? You're a snob, just in the other way. Do you think you are the only on… Zadie Smith
“ Although people sometimes assume that the happy are self-absorbed and complacent, just the opposite is true. In general, happiness doesn't make people want to drink daiquiris on the beach; it makes th… Gretchen Rubin
“ Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms. Ding Ling
“ One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching you will reduce th… Winston Churchill
“ Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there. Elizabeth Clarke Dunn
“ The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. George Bernard Shaw
“ Getting what you go after is success but liking it while you are getting it is happiness. Bertha Damon
“ All the wealth of the world cannot be compared with the happiness of living together happily united. Saint Mary Margaret d'Youville
“ And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own. Anne Ridler
“ The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well and when you find it put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and… John D. Rockefeller III
“ Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give. Norman MacEwan
“ For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth a book and a friend and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief. Fernandez de Andrada
“ I am enjoying to a full that period of reflection which is the happiest conclusion to a life of action. Willa Cather
“ Five great enemies to peace inhabit us: avarice ambition envy anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. Ralph Waldo Emerson
“ Happiness is the only sanction in life where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. George Santayana
