Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends. ― Epicurus

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It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations. ― Bertrand Russell

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Happy girls are the prettiest girls. — Audrey Hepburn

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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

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When I look in the mirror, I know I’m looking at someone who isn’t sure she deserves to be loved at all. ― Nicholas Sparks

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Independence is happiness. — Susan B. Anthony

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Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we've come and the progress we've made. - John Lewis

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Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus. ― Françoise Sagan

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I want to be careful not to throw all this away. This is happiness. I think this is what happiness is. I haven't got it yet, but I can sense it out there. I feel I'm close to it. Some days, I'm so close I can almost smell it. ― Sebastian Faulks

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Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. ― Marthe Troly-Curtin

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