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21 " Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible) "
― Abraham Lincoln
22 " I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change. "
― Simon Van Booy , The Illusion of Separateness
23 " If we live our lives looking for the excitement and exhilaration that change can bring, we will be much happier than when we are eventually forced to accept it anyways. "
― Daniel Willey
24 " People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t "
― , Moab Is My Washpot
25 " An important decision I made was to resist playing the Blame Game. The day I realized that I am in charge of how I will approach problems in my life, that things will turn out better or worse because of me and nobody else, that was the day I knew I would be a happier and healthier person. And that was the day I knew I could truly build a life that matters. "
― Steve Goodier
26 " Happy is the soul that has a friend. Happier is the soul that trusts in the truth of the heart of a friend. Happiest is the soul that knows the solemnity of friendship and honours its laws. "
― Ogwo David Emenike
27 " Happiness had never been like this before. Now it came like sun showers, the sun and the rain together. Happiness was happier than it had been - sharp, piercing, and snatched, like a breath while swimming in surf. "
― Elizabeth Knox , Dreamhunter (The Dreamhunter Duet, #1)
28 " When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved. "
― Dorothy Day
29 " If you're not getting happier as you get older, then you're fuckin' up "
― Ani DiFranco
30 " It's about the quality of the worry," I said. " I have happier worries now than I used to. "
31 " I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been. "
― Michael Cunningham , The Hours
32 " Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying about what might be missing. "
― Dan Buettner , Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way
33 " Analyzing data from 79 men and women who wore inconspicuous devices that recorded some of their conversations over the course of four days, researchers from Washington University and the University of Arizona found a correlation between feelings of well-being and the amount of time spent talking every day. Moreover, the more substantive your conversations, the happier you're likely to be. In other words, heart-to-hearts trump small talk. (LA Times, " A lof of happy talk" , March 11, 2010, A21.) "
34 " The more people I meet the happier I become. "
― Samuel Beckett , Waiting for Godot
35 " …she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever… "
― Jane Austen , Northanger Abbey
36 " As we drove off into the moonless night, raindrops danced through our headlights like the fireflies of my childhood. I silently cursed the frailty of happiness and doubted whether it ever existed for me. I could remember happier times, though, and those memories fluttered about my mind like fireflies, beckoning with their elusive splendor. But chasing memories held no more promise than catching fireflies. The pursued feelings either vanished or lost their magic upon examination, hardly the green-glowing beauty seen at a distance. So I looked ahead of me and dreamed on into the darkness, hoping to one day find someone who would love me. "
37 " He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to find it, perhaps, yet in itself that quest had been happier than anything he expected forevermore. Life, it seemed, must be a setting up of props around one - otherwise it was disaster. There was no rest, no quiet. He had been futile in longing to drift and dream, no one drifted except to maelstroms, no one dreamed, without his dreams becoming fantastic nightmares of indecision and regret. "
― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Beautiful and Damned
38 " If you can't see a benefit of the challenges in the present, know that you're giving a present to your future." —Bright Side Up: 100 Ways to Be Happier Right Now "
39 " There are no quick fixes in your life. If you want to live a happier life you have to make your actions happier every day. You need to be determined to make your life better if you want it to be so. "
40 " If you have a warm heart and you care for others you'll be happy and the community in which you live will be happier too. "
