#happiness

I'm not unhappy," he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-bones #jace-wayland #purpose #unhappiness #purpose

...is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#ignorance

It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others ↗

— Jacqueline Carey

#sorrow #observation

Laughter is poison to fear. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#catelyn-stark #fear #george-r-r-martin #happiness #laughter

Whoever is happy will make others happy. ↗

— Anne Frank

#young

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair... ↗

— Susan Polis Schutz

#flowers #happiness #happy #joy #summer

For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#happiness #marilyn-monroe #my-story #poor

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right. ↗

— Sarah Addison Allen

#risk #risk

The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#unhappiness #universe

...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying. ↗

— Rohinton Mistry

#balance