“Happy people are those who use a lower threshold in order to label an event positive.”

“We will be able to depart this life with the quiet peace-giving notion, that we were permitted to contribute to the happiness of many who will live after us. In our long lives we endeavored to unfold the collective consciousness. In our lives we have known hell and heaven; the final balance, however, is that we helped pave the way to dynamic harmony in this earthly house. That, I believe, is the meaning of life.”

“Be like the flower, content with its nature.”

“Your beliefs have the power to unlock your inner genius or keep you from fully achieving your greatest potential.”

“Joy weathers any storm: Happiness rides the waves.”

“[Happiness] comes when we choose to be who we are, to be ourselves, at this present moment in our lives.”

“I swore that I would not suffer from the world’s grief and the world’s stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as hard in endurance as the nether millstone and my mind as a polished surface of steel. I no longer suffered, but enjoyment had passed away from me.”

“If you walk in joy, happiness is close behind.”

“A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy”

“Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.”

“Make a pledge to yourself right now, to declare that you are worth your time and energy.”

“Dads. Do your faces light up when you first see your child in the morning or when you come home from work? Do you not understand that a child’s entire sense of value can revolve around what they see in your face when you first see them?”

“The cake had a trick candle that wouldn’t go out, so I didn’t get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.”

“I think it doesn’t matter if you or I or anybody else thinks homosexuality is a sin. It doesn’t matter if you or I think anything is a sin. It doesn’t matter if homosexuality is a sin or not. In fact, it doesn’t matter if anything anybody else does is a sin or not.Because sin is a very personal thing! It always has been and it always will be!And it has nothing to do with love.”