Stop acting so small.
You are
the universe
in ecstatic motion.
Rumi
A man should
“A
man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture
every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense
of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.” Goethe
Get happy
"Happiness depends upon
ourselves." — Aristotle
"There's nothing like deep
breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for
the right reasons." — Stephen Chbosky
"Happiness is a warm
puppy." — Charles M. Schulz
"Success is getting what
you want, happiness is wanting what you get." — W.P. Kinsella
"The best way to cheer
yourself is to try to cheer someone else up." — Mark Twain
"It's been my experience
that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that
you will." — L.M. Montgomery
"Happiness is when what
you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." — Mahatma Gandhi
"We all live with the
objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same." —
Anne Frank
"We're all golden
sunflowers inside." — Allen Ginsberg
"I, not events, have the
power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be.
Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and
I'm going to be happy in it." — Groucho Marx
"The U. S. Constitution
doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with
it yourself." — Benjamin Franklin
"Happiness is not a goal;
it is a byproduct." — Eleanor Roosevelt
"Happiness is a perfume
you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself." — Ralph Waldo
Emerson
"The word 'happiness'
would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness." — Carl Jung
"Happiness is neither
virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy
when we are growing." — William Butler Yeats
J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done
reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and
you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't
happen much, though.”
Larry L. King
“The best kind of writing, and the biggest thrill in writing,
is to suddenly read a line from your typewriter that you didn’t
know was in you.” 
Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism,..............
“Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives… and to the ‘good life’, whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.” Hunter S. Thompson
