“If my level of happiness depends on something else changing, I’m enslaved for a lifetime. If my level of happiness depends on ME changing, I am free for-evermore!”

“Music envelopes us in a euphoria of emotions that only a musician can unravel.”

“It’s when a rainbow smiles that sadness is banished from the land.”

“Happiness is pretty boring, hard to take – in a word, a pain in the neck.”

“If you don’t sacrifice what you want, what you want will be your sacrifice.”

“Not all Fantasy stories come from an empty box, instead; it comes from the heart of imagination.”

“Happiness is the art of sacrifice.”

“When we are fairly observant and overly patient, a vibration of happiness might crop up unwittingly, as we capture the “timelessness” of a lucky moment and a sparkle of a stray instant, unexpectedly, enraptures our life in a blaze of color and splendor. ( “Happy days are back again” )”

“A happy life is impos­si­ble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.”

“A little coffee. A little sunlight. Your troubles will get smaller.”

“Heald envied and admired a dog’s existence, and it only weighed on him more when he considered the rare and undeniably questionable gift of knowing that he would die— that he was mortal. A dog could only embrace love absolutely, without hesitation, and could devote itself to it with complete and unabashed abandon, for the world was forever.”

“Summer would not last forever; he knew it and Ronia knew it. But now they began to live as if it would, and as far as possible they pushed away all painful thoughts of winter.”

“An occasionally, I became very sad over that happiness, because I was well aware it couldn’t last.”

“Love is never wrong no matter what society says.”

“Books. Just the word brings me joy!”