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Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace'One grand boulevard with treeswith one grand cafe in sunwith strong black coffee in very small cups.One not necessarily very beautifulman or woman who loves you.One fine day.
But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.
It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.
Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.
I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.
There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It’s just a waste of perfectly good happiness.
To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?
I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy
Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations
There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.
Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.
I'll never wake up in a good mood again.I'm tired of these stinky boots
In the midst of happiness or despairin sorrow or in joyin pleasure or in pain:Do what is right and you will be at peace.
Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.
I am intrigued by the smile upon your face, and the sadness within your eyes
Exactly. How can you know it makes you happy if you’ve never experienced it?There are different kinds of happy, she said. Some kinds don’t need any proof.
Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.