"ur be the things I am wiser to know:Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.Four be the things I'd been better without:Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.Three be the things I shall never attain:Envy,..."
- Dorothy Parker
"We're all golden sunflowers inside."
- Allen Ginsberg
"And besides . . . I don’t want to leave you. Er, you guys.”He smiled, and it lit up his whole face. “Well, ‘we’ are certainly happy to hear that. Oh, and I’m also happy to watch our darling little lov..."
- Richelle Mead
"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
- Mark Twain
"It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it."
- Dale Carnegie
"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough"
- Oprah Winfrey
"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be..."
- Leo Tolstoy
"Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"[F]or just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. I..."
- Lev Grossman
"In a person's lifetime there may be not more than half a dozen occasions that he can look back to in the certain knowledge that right then, at that moment, there was room for nothing but happiness in ..."
- Ernestine Gilbreth Carey