He was a wonderful man. And when a man is that special, you know it sooner than you think possible. You recognize it instinctively, and you're certain that no matter what happens, there will never be another one like him.
Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But if there was one thing she'd learned in the past few weeks, it was that sometimes, when you're really lucky, you meet someone with a map.
What good is money if it can't buy happiness?
You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.
Love and compassion are the mother and father of a smile. We need to create more smiles in our world today. Smiles, after all, pave the way to a happy world.
We are a noisy and blessed little family
I would do my damn best to be more happy than not.
Let today be the day you finally release yourself from the imprisonment of past grudges and anger. Simplify your life. Let go of the poisonous past and live the abundantly beautiful present... today.
Marriage is just a piece of paper if it's not a happy one.
The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.
It is time for a return to childhood, to simplicity, to running and climbing and laughing in the sunshine, to experiencing happiness instead of being trained for a lifetime of pursuing happiness. It is time to let children be children again.
There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.
The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H.
It is not as much about who you used to be, as it is about who you choose to be.
Relationships: If you put up with it, you’re going to end up with it. Set the standard you want and don’t settle for less.
If you write it down, you can make it happen.
There is a fine line between compassion and a victim mentality. Compassion though is a healing force and comes from a place of kindness towards yourself. Playing the victim is a toxic waste of time that not only repels other people, but also robs the victim of ever knowing true happiness.
Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough.
Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.
I guess that’s the thing about riding on cloud nine—it can’t last forever. And that particular fall was hard and fast.