happiness

Percy wakes me (fourteen)Percy wakes me and I am not ready.He has slept all night under the covers.Now he__ eager for action: a walk, then breakfast.So I hasten up. He is sitting on the kitchen counter Where he is not supposed to be. How wonderful you are, I say. How clever, if you Needed me, To wake me. He thought he would a lecture and deeply His eyes begin to shine.He tumbles onto the couch for more compliments.He squirms and squeals: he has done something That he needed And now he hears that it is okay. I scratch his ears. I turn him over And touch him everywhere. He isWild with the okayness of it. Then we walk, then He has breakfast, and he is happy.This is a poem about Percy.This is a poem about more than Percy.Think about it.

The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself. It is in this relationship that you set the standard for all others.

Make a pledge to yourself right now, to declare that you are worth your time and energy.

Success, like happiness, is a by-product, not a goal.

I am happy that I can aid those admirable men, both living and dead, who by their pens or their tongues have aided the great cause of human liberty and universal happiness.

The more people I meet the happier I become.

A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy

This planet is a "Hell" and there is no "Heaven" up there. So, learn to be "Happy in Hell".

One thing I've learned: we don't stumble accidentally into an amazing life. It takes decision, a commitment to consistently work on ourselves.

You don't have to be like anyone else. You just need to learn more about your own creative self and start blooming.

I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.

Don't interpret anything too much. This is time waster number 1.

Your happiness and suffering depend on your actions and not on my wishes for you.

The most important reason for your __o_ is that you need your downtime so you won__ behave like a jerk because you__e depleted. And you don__ want to battle an appetite spiked by the stress of overcommitment. But that__ your secret; others don__ need that information. So just smile, say no, thank you, and keep moving.

Heureux sont ceux qui peuvent aimer et haïr sans feinte, sans détour, sans nuance.

The tragedy is that what you disapprove of in others is the very thing you disapprove of in yourself.

Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.

We advocate the atheistic philosophy because it is the only clear, consistent position which seems possible to us. As atheists, we simply deny the assumptions of theism; we declare that the God idea, in all its features, is unreasonable and unprovable; we add, more vitally, that the God idea is an interference with the interests of human happiness and progress. We oppose religion not merely as a set of theological ideas; but we must also oppose religion as a political, social and moral influence detrimental to the welfare of humanity.