“I’d rather be miserable loving you than happy with anyone else.”
“God doesn t bless us just to make us happy; He blesses us to make us a blessing.”
“Being interesting isn t important. But being happy is. As well as being a person you re proud of”
“Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn t necessarily want us to be happy. He wants us to be lovable. Worthy of love. Able to be loved by Him. We don t start off being all that lovable, if we re honest. What makes people hard to love? Isn t it what is commonly called selfishness? Selfish people are hard to love because so little love comes out of them.”
“If you ask a tree how he feels to know that he s spreading his fragrance and making people happy, I don t think a tree looks at it that way. I am just like that, and it is just my nature to be like this.”
“But you re dead, said Harry. Oh, yes, said Dumbledore matter-of-factly. Then... am I dead too? Ah, said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly. That is the question, isn t it? On the whole, dear boy, I think not.”
“I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.”
“I think we deserve a happily-ever-after. If anyone ever did, it s us.”
“Are the choices you are making going to really make you happy NOW or happy eventually?”
“Be your own kind of Beautiful”
“If to love each other is the job, then the happy life is the salary.”
“This is what I wanted. This guy. This life. This me. I was never getting my old life back, and I didn t care. I was happy. I was safe. I was right where I wanted to be.”
“I had seen a different side of her, the one where she didn t feel threatened by me, and I liked that side. That side was vulnerable and happy and kind.”
“I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book: Aleph.(Note: bracketed text is mine.)... I spoke to three scholars, [the character says at last. ] ...two of them said that, after death, the [sic (misprint, fault of the publisher)] just go to Paradise. The third one, though, told me to consult some verses from the Koran. [end quote] ...I can see that he s excited. [narrator] ...Now I have many positive things to say about Coelho: He is respectable, inspiring as a man, a truth-seeker, and an appealing writer; but one should hesitate to call him a literary writer based on this quote. A literary author knows that a character s excitement should be shown in his or her dialogue and not in the narrator s commentary on it. Advice for Coelho: Remove the I can see that he s excited sentence and show his excitement in the phrasing of his quote.(Now, in defense of Coelho, I am firmly of the opinion, having myself written plenty of prose that is flawed, that a novelist should be forgiven for slipping here and there.)Lastly, it appears that a belief in reincarnation is of great interest to Mr. Coelho ... Just think! He is a man who has achieved, (as Leonard Cohen would call it), a remote human possibility. He has won lots of fame and tons of money. And yet, how his preoccupation with reincarnation—none other than an interest in being born again as somebody else—suggests that he is not happy!”
“Happy are those who evolve from within.”
“And they lived ever after, whether they were happy about it or not.”
“And sure, I know if you eat this way you ll die. So? If you don t eat this way you re still going to die. Why not die happy?”