“Impermanence. It is the nature of all things, especially relationships. They are certainly not a true cause of happiness.”

“LORD GORING: I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.LORS CAVERSHAM: You seem to me to be living entirely for pleasure.LORD GORING. What else is there to live for, father? Nothing ages like happiness.”

“Do what is best for you and what is best for you is that which makes you happy.So do what makes you happy.Be with who makes you happy. Because in the end what matters mostis your happiness,both for you and also for the ones who love you.”

“If you don’t have an ego then you must surely have a beautiful life.”

“Love fills my days with happiness, and my nights with dreams.”

“Love is but the dreams of desires; happiness is but the dreams of love.”

“Ah! Where are you hiding? Happiness is looking for you. Come out in the sunshine. All the darkness will vanish and happiness will surround you.”

“Success without happiness is a mirage of life.”

“You can find the most happiness by expressing your kindness.”

“Your mind is your garden,Your thoughts are your seeds,The decision is yours to plant flowers or weeds.”

“This indulgence, though not more than Catherine had hoped for, completed her conviction of being favored beyond every other human creature, in friends and fortune, circumstance and chance. Everything seemed to cooperate for her advantage.”

“When you pick flowers, it is usually to make one person happy, but if you leave the flowers, then many people can see them, and then they, too, will be happy.”

“Be the person your dog thinks you are! – JW Stephens”

“How often are we waiting for the next pleasant hit of… whatever? The next meal or the next relationship or the next latte or the next vacation, I don’t know. We just live in anticipation of the next enjoyable thing that we’ll experience.”

“He feared snakes, and tamedPharaoh’s rat, the rust-backed mongoose. No bustof it was made, but therewas pleasure for the rat. Its restlessness wasits excellence; it was praised for its wit;and the jerboa, like it,a small desert rat,and not famous, thatlives without water, hashappiness.”