Quotes of: Pursuit-of-happiness Keyword

The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return - that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness.

I Capture the Castle

In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Starting from this day, I will create a chance of happiness that doesn't depend on perfect conditions. My options may not be infinite, but my possibilities are endless." -Bliss Aston

Infinite Possibilities

I remember watching it all and getting the tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.

If I Stay

I was so nearly happy. There remained only a tiny something, something unexplained and inexplicable that buzzed in my ear when the lights were out, like a malarial mosquito.

Inside the Whale

Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness – to glory?

Jane Eyre

The true friend . . . knows that you need him in that very moment –not tomorrow, not next week. By next week you may happy, or you may be dead.

Journey

Happiness is not to be found at the bottom of a bottle or from the tip of a needle; it is not to be found amidst a cloud of smoke or within a sugar-coated pill. If you look for it in these places, you will find naught but despair.

Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest

There was a large crowd around us, and every face in it looked happy. We had little opportunity to talk until we reached the woods, where there were no flowers and no people.

Kokoro

I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction

The tendency of the human mind is to see the world with a ‘dualistic’ view that describes everything through comparisons: good and bad, pain and happiness, beauty and ugliness, rich and poor.

The Restful Mind

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Rights of Man

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.

Requiem

You don’t want to wake up and realize you could have been happy, that the risks would have been worth it, but you dwindled away your chances.

Revived

Speak life. Let your voice be heard around the globe. Speak into existence prosperity, peace, love, happiness. Allow yours words to transcend throughout space and time.

Sweet Destiny

My personal opinion is that the neutral position on the mood spectrum—what I called emotional sea level—is not happiness but rather contentment and the calm acceptance that is the goal of many kinds of spiritual practice.

Spontaneous Healing

My tears brought no sense of release or relief. Their flight felt like the lightest, coldest touch of a departing lover.

The Sad Truth About Happiness

Have you ever considered another type of loneliness; a good and healthy, happy loneliness?

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Happiness comes from striving to make tomorrow better than today and being at peace when yesterday was better than today as well.

Single Dad Laughing

Avoidance therapy does not work. One major reason for that is because Avoidance Therapy (diversion, think yourself happy, positive affirmations) is predicated on the validity of 'Failure of Will.' Depression is not a choice.

Mickey and the Gargoyle

A slow, knowing smile came over Keirah's face. Her heart filled with happiness, believing the Gwarda gypsy sitting next to her at this very moment was worthy of her beloved sister.

Magnificence