Richelle E. Goodrich

Happiness must be a jealous pet. When you try seeking yours out, it tends to keep hidden. But as soon as you turn to help a friend find his, your own happiness comes bounding out of the darkness like some crazed animal.

Imagined happiness is still happiness.

The secret to happiness is elusive because it is a paradoxical truth. To gain happiness, you must first cease pursuing it. Things perceived to provide happiness are like shiny, pretty bubbles that lure us this way and that way, chasing after their glossy buoyancy. But once they are handled, they __op___mpty__anishing along with the hope that happiness could ever be captured. Happiness cannot be caught or won or purchased or even handled. Happiness simply forms like a rainbow in the kindest and most grateful hearts.

Happiness simply forms like a rainbow in the kindest and most grateful hearts.

I can and will improve the world.I will smile, show kindness, and be grateful.I refuse to be unhappy.

Be happy. Be happy for no reason at all. Believe it or not, you have the ability and free agency to make that choice.

All truth starts out as a wish; hence, reality is born from fairytale."from_"My Aquarius

Dreams become reality once the dreamer goes beyond imagining and acts them out.

Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently.

Theories look great on paper until reality scribbles all over the page.

Reality depends a great deal upon one believing what he sees__r seeing what he believes. Either way.

One way or another, I think we are all destined to learn the same lessons in life. Universal truths are universal truths. They cannot be changed.

Courage doesn__ defeat fear or erase fear or adjust to fear. Courage acts, plain and simple, in the midst of fear.

Courage isn__ being a dragon. Neither is it behaving like a dragon. Nor is it taking up arms to fight and defeat dragons. Courage is being a lamb standing with poise among dragons.

Mad fearlessness is not courage. The only requirement for courage is a good heart.

The most powerful and courageous heroes I know are those who bite their tongues when justification, validation, temptation, or vengeance would have them strike with truthful, hurtful words.

Laughing in the face of danger doesn't negate the fear, it simply enables you to smile at it.

It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness.It is power.