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Happiness is when you see your best self in others. (Pei-Ling Hsu)

msordinary — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 20:03:17 +0000

Having less is indeed having more. (Pei-Ling Hsu)

msordinary — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:34:40 +0000

Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream. (Jack Kerouac)

msordinary — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:03:58 +0000

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed? (Hunter S. Thompson)

msordinary — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:02:20 +0000

Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed (Jodi Picoult)

msordinary — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:58:07 +0000

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires. (Paulo Coelho)

msordinary — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:54:38 +0000

Too busy to care about what others think is one kind of solitary happiness. (Pei-Ling Hsu)

msordinary — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 20:57:31 +0000

Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously. (Tom Robbins)

msordinary — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 07:59:12 +0000

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile. (Mother Teresa)

msordinary — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 07:56:48 +0000

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. (Leo Tolstoy)

msordinary — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 07:53:34 +0000

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it. (Groucho Marx)

msordinary — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 07:50:06 +0000

We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents. (Bob Ross)

msordinary — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 07:47:18 +0000

"But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives. (Haruki Murakami)

msordinary — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 07:45:55 +0000

The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last. (Nicholas Sparks)

msordinary — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 07:41:33 +0000

Sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something. (Sarah Dessen)

msordinary — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 07:39:24 +0000

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy? (Oscar Wilde)

msordinary — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 07:38:23 +0000

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. (Jonathan Safran Foer)

msordinary — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 02:36:59 +0000

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. (Elizabeth Gilbert)

msordinary — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 02:35:40 +0000

Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life? (Audrey Niffenegger)

msordinary — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 07:54:35 +0000

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. (Oscar Wilde)

msordinary — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 07:52:06 +0000

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. (Chuck Palahniuk)

msordinary — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 07:50:42 +0000

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. (Bertrand Russell)

msordinary — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 07:49:27 +0000

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. (John Lennon)

msordinary — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 07:48:30 +0000

I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness. (Bill Watterson)

msordinary — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 07:47:22 +0000

So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be. (Stephen Chbosky)

msordinary — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 07:45:13 +0000