I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know
The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.
Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.
We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.
Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.
Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy . . . Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values, and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
I have no enemies and no hatred.
Love and fear are the two opposite ends of the continuum, as far as I'm concerned. When we are not in love, we are in fear.
I believe one must be happy in life.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the one thing hated.
We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.
Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.
I loved doing 'Homeland.' I loved playing Brody.
Are you happy?" she [Clarisse] said. "Am I what?" he [Montag] cried. But she was gone- running in the moonlight. Her front door shut gently.
I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day.
I'm into grilled cheese. Grilled cheese makes me feel beautiful!
Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
I'm enjoying my years, I'm enjoying my life, I'm enjoying my family. I'm just happy - a happy person.
It's such an amazing thing to be loved for who you are.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
When a story is flying along, and I'm so into it that my 'real' world goes away, it can feel magical. I cease to be, my desk and computer ceases to be, and I am my character in his world. Psychologists call this a 'flow state,' and it's better than publication, money, awards, fame.
