To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
There are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give.
Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier 'til this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that – everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been. V.
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.