“ I have learned that trying to control other people’s opinions of you is the fastest possible route to unhappiness. Dan Pearce
“ You're impatient for your life to start lifting you up and making you happier. You have that backwards: if you want a happier life, you have to make it happen. It's not called YOUR life for nothing! -… Charmaine Smith Ladd
“ If you invest your time, talent, and resources, orphans around the world can have much happier and healthier lives. Beau Sides
“ It is better to experience sorrow than happiness.Many life lessons are learnt in moments of sorrow. Lailah Gifty Akita
“ Sorcha took the elevator down to the basement of the fashion house. She glanced at her stunningly beautiful reflection in the mirror and smiled to herself. How fortunate she was to be a vampire - no g… Alan Kinross
“ Perhaps we don’t progress, because there are so many views – so many paths to peace and happiness – that we get hung up on each path’s differences. Trying to sort out right from wrong when the rights… A.J. Darkholme
“ But look behind you, Mary.' She nodded towards the dais. 'One of the musicians seems to be trying to attract your attention.'It was Peter. He was standing on the dais smiling across at me. My delight… Jennifer Paynter
“ He looked upwards at the brilliant blue sky. It was high noon because the sun was right overhead. The clouds danced around slowly, while drifting across the sky. He closed his eyes and felt the warmth… Jason Medina
“ Outside the store, beauty and mystery struggled to come together. Inside, they held hands, giggled to one another, and whispered secret messages. Lawren Leo
“ (…) everything is finite. Life. Love. All this.' (…) 'Sadness too. Although that's harder to let go of than happiness. Lauren Beukes
“ Thinking is a personalized activity that can lead us into a state of happiness or cause us to be sad. Who we are becomes a product of how we think. What we think about and how we integrate knowledge i… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ But sometimes you simply can't make yourself feel like acting. And in those situations, motivational advice risks making things worse, by surreptitiously strengthening your belief that you need to fee… Oliver Burkeman
“ ...it pointed to an alternative approach, a ‘negative path’ to happiness, that entailed taking a radically different stance towards those things that most of us spend our lives trying to avoid. It inv… Oliver Burkeman
