“ For action, whatever its immediate purpose, also implies relief at doing something, anything, and the joy of exertion. This is the optimism that is inherent in, and proper and indispensable to action,… Blaise Cendrars
“ You must want to change. It sounds simple, but it’s obviously not. If things were easy, then something would be wrong. You must make a firm decision that this is what you want. If you want to change,… Leigh Hershkovich
“ Happiness is not to be found at the bottom of a bottle or from the tip of a needle; it is not to be found amidst a cloud of smoke or within a sugar-coated pill. If you look for it in these places, you… Wayne Gerard Trotman
“ It is a fact that one man can be deliriously happy in the exact situation that causes another man to wither from depression. Richelle E. Goodrich
“ Depression is not an absence of happiness, it’s a feeling that happiness may never return. Steven Aitchison
“ It was clear to her now, Happiness was a seductive illusion. No one as fucked up as her deserved one drop of joy. But oh god was it delicious when it fell into her lap for a little while. (Such a pret… Solange nicole
“ It's okay to be sad, but it's not okay to be ungrateful. Cultivating gratitude is the attitude that makes room for happiness; given the space for happiness to grow, gratitude has a way of surmounting… Michael Brent Jones
“ Willadee asked him if he thought maybe it should say HAPPY EVER AFTER, but Samuel said no, he thought happiness was like any other miracle. The more you talked about it, the less people believed it wa… Jenny Wingfield
“ Making this a better world happens one person at a time. You cannot force your beliefs on anyone. Rather, be the example that others can emulate. Live your life so that others may be inspired by your… Tom Giaquinto
“ I'm looking for something new to believe in that isn't the way people yearn at night in the city. Constance Renfrow
“ Happiness is neither in the past, nor in the future. It is here right now, in the present. Manoj Arora
“ I do not want to recollect. I should be afraid of preventing the future and of allowing the past to encroach on me. It is out of the utter forgetfulness of yesterday that I create every new hour's fre… Andre Gide
“ The fortune that you feel you don't deserve is heaven's compensation for the misfortunes she feels you didn't deserve Agona Apell
“ When we can only be happy for the success of those less fortunate, we are secretly undermining our own success. Charles F. Glassman
“ For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any man and worthy of all men to calm and inspirit us. A sane society whose riches are h… Helen Keller
“ It is widely believed that interpersonal relationships of an intimate kind are the chief, if not the only, source of human happiness. Yet the lives of creative individuals often seem to run counter to… Anthony Storr
