Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided.

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

What is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Happiness is not a goal, it's a by-product.

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness - it has no taste.

Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.

Maybe happiness isn't what you believe, but who you believe.

There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness.

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

Joy is that kind of happiness that does not depend on what happens.

Forgiveness. The ability to forgive oneself. Stop here for a few breaths and think about this because it is the key to making art, and very possibly the key to finding any semblance of happiness in life. Every time I have set out to translate the book (or story, or hopelessly long essay) that exists in such brilliant detail on the big screen of my limbic system onto a piece of paper (which, let's face it, was once a towering tree crowned with leaves and a home to birds). I grieve for my own lack of talent and intelligence. Every. Single. Time. Were I smarter, more gifted, I could pin down a closer facsimile of the wonders I see. I believe, more than anything, that this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being writers. Forgiveness, therefore, is key. I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. Again and again throughout the course of my life I will forgive myself.

...there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

If you are feeling lost in Life, celebrate. Because only when you are lost, can you find your true Self and discover true Happiness!

We admire some people for their personal courage. For sticking their neck out and for overcoming the odds. The truth is that no one is more courageous than another. If you took charge of your Life and did what's right for you, and stood by you what you believe in, than settling for what's easy, that would be an act of personal courage. Important, it is through being courageous that you unlock the secret to Happiness!

Happiness is personal joy of attainment of peace.

Acknowledge the goodness in life for there you will find happiness. Live in the present for there is the path to a worthwhile life. Seek out your options for there you will discover the best choice. - Lucinda, Blackhorse Road

FRIENDSHIP IS THE PLACE OF HAPPINESS IN LIFE AND THE NECTAR ON THE SORROWS OF LIFE, EVEN ONE DROP IS ENOUGH.

If you feel an unquenchable thirst in you, welcome it. Celebrate it. In children, this thirst presents itself as curiosity. In adolescents, it appears as a search for love, for belonging. In young adults, it manifests itself as a search for worldly success, validation, recognition and acceptance in society. And when you are past your mid-30s...latest by your 40s...it appears as a search for meaning. Slowly, if you are tuned, and are in sync with the energy that created you, you discover something magical! You awaken to the truth that Life is intrinsically meaningless. And bringing meaning to your Life is your responsibility. You do that by following your Bliss, by choosing not to postpone your Happiness!