How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity read more

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.

If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.

Being happy with someone doesn't mean that everything about them is perfect, they can't be. It means that we know read more

Being happy with someone doesn't mean that everything about them is perfect, they can't be. It means that we know no one is perfect including ourselves so we look beyond someones imperfections and concentrate on their perfections and our happiest shines thru. As long as one's HEART is in the right place and is perfect for your liking then everything else that is near perfect or perfect about them is a bonus and everything else....secondary, they don't matter.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

If solid happiness we prize,
Within our breast this jewel lies,
And they are fools who roam;
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If solid happiness we prize,
Within our breast this jewel lies,
And they are fools who roam;
The world has nothing to bestow,
From our own selves our bliss must flow,
And that dear hut,--our home.

People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel

People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel

If there was one thing all the losses in her life had taught her it was that life was short, read more

If there was one thing all the losses in her life had taught her it was that life was short, fleeting, and way too precious to waste waiting around for happiness to hit you over the head and make itself known. Happiness wasn't something you found, happiness was something you made - by living in the moment, by cherishing the people in your life right now, by finding the courage to change those things you didn't like

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in read more

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. -Victor Hugo.