“ Gregory?” I called. I couldn’t help myself. It was irrational, but I was scared to see him run from me. He turned my direction, his feet pivoting in the dirt. Warily, I crossed into the light for a mo… Richelle E. Goodrich
“ Memory, imagination, and passionately responding in accord with the deeply embedded impulse to act with decency are pliable mechanisms that we can employ to attain happiness. Kilroy J. Oldster
“ Your dissatisfaction with yourself speaks of a self-absorption, a vanity, which always gets in the way of your truly coming to rejoice in life. Matias Dalsgaard
“ Love in Life is never a battle of 'win' or 'loss' but a journey of unconditional acceptance. Sandhya Jane
“ Because minds do blow and hearts do break. Those are not just sayings. And wolves and roaches are not the only creatures that chew off their legs to get out of traps—human beings do that, too. Robin Silverman
“ Happiness does not create humor. There's nothing funny about being happy. Sadness creates humor. Krazy Kat getting hit on the head by a brick from Ignatz Mouse is funny. All the sad things happening t… Charles M. Schulz
“ For man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers ; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unj… Luigi Pirandello
“ Mrs. Norris had been talking to her the whole way from Northampton of her wonderful good fortune, and the extraordinary degree of gratitude and good behaviour which it ought to produce, and her consci… Jane Austen
“ Sadness is like growing of hairs around our ass; we may not like it or want it, but it is surprisingly always there. M.F. Moonzajer
“ This susceptibility to impressions had been his undoing, no doubt. Still at his age he had, like a boy or a girl even, these alternations of mood; good days, bad days, for no reason whatever, happines… Virginia Woolf
“ There are in this world ample reasons to be sad and disheartened, discouraged and fearful. But there are as many reasons not to be. Richelle E. Goodrich
“ Happiness found me alone one day and took me by the hand.He showed me how the sun gave out its warmth across the land.Sadness found me content and smiling upward at the sun.He talked of droughts and b… Richelle E. Goodrich
“ Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you.Have you given much thought to our mortal condition?Probably not. Why would you? Well, l Anne Carson