“A little misery, at times, makes one appreciate happiness more.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Patchwork Girl of Oz

“I am a lump.
A big, mushy, happy lump.”
― Sarah Andersen, Big Mushy Happy Lump

“Happiness of heart can never be measured out and bundled up, it's intangible. We keep running after it, grasping for it, and the heat of our running so seldom brings it closer. But now and then there may be a moment. We look at something and know it is good and beautiful. Those moments are happiness.”
― Gladys Bagg Taber, Harvest at Stillmeadow

“The problem with growing up fearing and expecting rejection is that you cannot enter into adult relationship in the expectation of happiness.”
― Dorothy Rowe, Depression

“What is true happiness? It's not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
― Helen Keller

“For human nature is such that grief and pain—even simultaneously suffered—do not add up as a whole in our consciousness, but hide, the lesser behind the greater, according to a definite law of perspective. It is providential and is our means of surviving in the camp. And this is the reason why so often in free life one hears it said that man is never content. In fact it is not a question of a human incapacity for a state of absolute happiness, but of an ever-insufficient knowledge of the complex nature of the state of unhappiness; so that the single name of the major cause is given to all its causes, which are composite and set out in an order of urgency. And if the most immediate cause of stress comes to an end, you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others.”
― Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

“Joy is meant to be felt; its not meant to be detained. It is meant to be shared with others; not to be felt alone. When all the mouths smile out their teeth together, thats when the greatest happiness can be measured. You don't smile in order to see your friends cry and claim your joy is divine.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“The fullness of life is wrapped in all sacred times: plenty and scarcity; happiness and sadness; planting and harvesting; sunrise and sunset; winter and springtime; summer and autumn; beginning and finishing; birth and death…!”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“The key to happiness is under the doorstep rug.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“The grace of fulfilled dream is phenomenal.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Maintain a persistent focus of what you want. You will attract the divine force to bring it into existence.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Pursuit of happiness is a pursuit of mirage; you only realize its a delusion at the end of the road”
― A.M.M Alusi

“The Dragon of Bad Emotions:

… One of the most difficult (but utterly important) things to manage in life is to “KILL THE DRAGON” inside of ourselves—a strong, aggressive, negative “dragon” of nasty emotions that lives inside of you, me. . . everybody!

Probably this type of negativity can sometimes even be helpful in business, but it can also destroy any love or closeness, if you let it reach

into your private life. You have to kill this “dragon” every day, because it comes back again and again, trying to destroy your happiness and the good, close relationships you have with your partner, and with other people.”
― Sahara Sanders

“Q: What is nirvana and do many people attain it?

Lama: When you develop your powers of concentration such that you can integrate your mind into single-pointed concentration, you will gradually diminish your ego’s emotional reactions until they disappear altogether. At that point, you transcend your ego and discover an everlasting, blissful, peaceful state of mind. That is what we call nirvana. Many people have attained this state and many more are well on their way to it.”
― Thubten Yeshe, Becoming Your Own Therapist

“We now have every right except the right not to be blissful.”
― Pascal Bruckner, Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happy

“Seeking to eliminate pain nonetheless puts it at the heart of the system. As a result, today we suffer from not wanting to suffer just as one can make oneself ill by trying to be perfectly healthy. Furthermore, we now tell ourselves a strange fable about a society completely devoted to hedonism, and for which everything becomes an irritation, a torture. Unhappiness is not only unhappiness;
it is, worse yet, a failure to be happy.”
― Pascal Bruckner, Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happy

“Social Media begins with a story - your story.”
― Germany Kent

“You ought to welcome troubled-souls with your peaceful-spirit.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“i'd rather not look for a job... to let a fine one find me. And that definitely wouldn't define me as a snob!;)”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job

“Your purpose is more than just being happy, but it’s about making others to be blessed and happy.”
― Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

“True happiness is a gift from God, find your happy place and stay there.”
― Theresa Lewis, Rising Above Adversity: Finding God's Purpose Through Your Pain

“You Can Never Forget but You Can Forgive”
― Ed Bishop

“Every married woman needs to make love with her husband twice daily especially if she is over 30. At this age, you really need regular orgasms and regularly release estrogen, serotonin, oxytocin, endorphins, dehydroepiandrosterone, testosterone, opiorphin, dopamine to prevent prolapse as you age, which is the main reason women ask for love making at forty, pay for it at fifty, pray for it at sixty and wish they can have it at seventy. Regular love making and orgasms can help you prevent vaginal atrophy and minimize the effects of menopausal syndrome such as hot flashes, night sweats, menstrual irregularities, vaginal dryness, depression, nervous tension, palpitations, headaches, insomnia, lack of energy, difficulty concentrating, waist pains and dizzy spells especially if you are over 40.”
― Anyaele Sam Chiyson

“Happiness lies in knowing God, the Heavenly Father.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“You don't have to be rich to be happy. Cliche maybe, but also true.

The secret to happiness is well within your reach.

It is a state of mind and completely within your control regardless of your financial situation.

Don't make the same mistake I made and wait until you gain financial freedom to learn these lessons. You can have happiness right now regardless of your finances or what's going on in your life because happiness is a choice.”
― Surya Raj

“Happiness is important, but I wouldn't say it is the main purpose of human existence.”
― Helon Habila, Travelers