17/365 - Repetition of Pleasure (Arthur Schopenhauer)

“Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure”
 

- Arthur Schopenhauer

16/365 - Which the World knows not (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

“Every man has his secret sorrows 

which the world knows not; 

and often times 

we call a man cold 

when he is only sad.”

  - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

15/365 - The Quality of your Thoughts (Marcus Aurelius)

“The happiness of your life 

depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”

  - Marcus Aurelius

14/365 - A Mathematical Formula for Happiness (Jodi Picoult)

“A mathematical formula for happiness:

Reality divided by Expectations.

There were two ways to be happy

:improve your reality 

or lower your expectations.”

  - Jodi Picoult

(Nineteen Minutes)

13/365 - The Greater Part of our Happiness (Martha Washington)

“The greater part of our happiness

 or misery

 depends upon our dispositions,

 and not upon our circumstances.”

  - Martha Washington

12/365 - I have loved the World (Sri Chinmoy)

“I am very happy
Because I have conquered myself
And not the world.

I am very happy
Because I have loved the world
And not myself.”

  - Sri Chinmoy

11/365 - Happiness is Freedom (Carrie Jones)

“The secret of happiness is freedom,

 the secret of freedom is courage.”

  - Carrie Jones

(Need)

10/365 - To Seek Happiness for Others (Martin Luther King Jr.)

“Those who are not looking for Happiness 

are the most likely to find it, 

because those who are searching

forget that the surest way to be happy

 is to seek happiness for others.”

  - Martin Luther King Jr.

09/365 - The Advantage of a Bad Memory (Friedrich Nietzsche)

“The advantage of a bad memory

 is that one enjoys several times 

the same good things for the first time.”
 

- Friedrich Nietzsche

08/365 - Happiness is an Allegory (Haruki Murakami)

“It's like Tolstoy said. 

Happiness is an allegory, 

unhappiness a story.”

  - Haruki Murakami

(Kafka on the Shore)

07/365 - The Happiest People I know (Gordon B. Hinckley)

“Generally speaking,

 the most miserable people I know 

are those who are obsessed with themselves; 

the happiest people I know 

are those who lose themselves in the service of others...

By and large, 

I have come to see that if we complain about life, 

it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.”

- Gordon B. Hinckley

06/365 - Who is the Happier man? (Hunter S. Thompson)

“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: 

who is the happier man, 

he who has braved the storm of life and lived 

or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
 

- Hunter S. Thompson

05/365 - The Best way to Cheer Yourself (Mark Twain)

“The best way to cheer yourself 

is to try to cheer someone else up.”

  - Mark Twain

04/365 - Consequence of Personal Effort (Elizabeth Gilbert)

“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort.

 You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, 

and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. 

You have to participate relentlessly

 in the manifestations of your own blessings. 

And once you have achieved a state of happiness, 

you must never become lax about maintaining it.

 You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward

 into that happiness forever, 

to stay afloat on top of it.”

  - Elizabeth Gilbert

(Eat, Pray, Love)

03/365 - The People who make us Happy (Marcel Proust)

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy;

 they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
 

- Marcel Proust

02/365 - Doing nothing as a brake on Time (Philip Larkin)

“I'm terrified of the thought of time passing 

(or whatever is meant by that phrase)

 whether I 'do' anything or not. 

In a way I may believe, 

deep down, 

that doing nothing acts as a brake on 'time'-

 it doesn't of course.

 It merely adds the torment of having done nothing, 

when the time comes,

 when it really doesn't matter

 if you've done anything or not.”

  - Philip Larkin

(Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica)

01/365 - Our Life is made up of Time (Cecelia Ahern)

“Our life is made up of time.

 Our days are measured in hours, 

our pay measured by those hours, 

our knowledge is measured by years. [...] 

And yet time eventually runs out 

and you wonder in your heart of hearts 

if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, 

weeks, months, years and decades 

 were being spent the best way they possibly could.”

  - Cecelia Ahern

And what a year is has been.

Thank you with all my heart for sharing it with me.

Here's to an even better one to come!

366/365 - On Awareness (Osho)

"I don't have any choice any more.

 I am in a choiceless awareness. 

I don't have to be aware.

 I am simply aware. 

 Now it is just like my heartbeat or like my breathing.

 Even if I try not to be aware,

 it is not possible;

 the very effort will make me more aware.

 Awareness is not a quality, a characteristic; 

it is your whole being. 

When you become aware, 

there is no choice left to be otherwise."

- Osho

365/365 - Wow! What a Ride! (Hunter S. Thompson)

“Life should not be a journey to the grave

 with the intention of arriving safely 

in a pretty and well preserved body, 

but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, 

thoroughly used up, 

totally worn out, 

and loudly proclaiming:

 "Wow! What a Ride!”

- Hunter S. Thompson

364/365 - In Proportion to one's Courage (Anaïs Nin)

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”

- Anaïs Nin

363/365 - The Lives of Others (Paulo Coelho)

“We can never judge the lives of others,

 because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.

 It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path,

 but it's another to think that yours is the only path.”

  - Paulo Coelho

362/365 - Before the Fall (Jodi Picoult)

“Once you had put the pieces back together,

even though you may look intact, 

you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.”

- Jodi Picoult

361/365 - Who will not admit they are Wrong (François de La Rochefoucauld)

“No persons are more frequently wrong,

 than those who will not admit they are wrong.”

  - François de La Rochefoucauld

360/365 - A Learning Experience (Douglas Adams)

“A learning experience 

is one of those things that says, 

"You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.”

  - Douglas Adams

(The Salmon of Doubt)

359/365 - Life was much like a Song (Nicholas Sparks)

“Life, he realize, was much like a song.

 In the beginning there is mystery, 

in the end there is confirmation,

 but it's in the middle

 where all the emotion resides

 to make the whole thing worthwhile.”

  - Nicholas Sparks

(The Last Song)

358/365 - Your Whole Life (Audrey Niffenegger)

“Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, 

even if you lose it, 

than to be just okay for your whole life?”

- Audrey Niffenegger

(The Time Traveler's Wife)

357/365 - Don't be afraid of Death (Natalie Babbitt)

“Don't be afraid of death;

 be afraid of an unlived life.

 You don't have to live forever, 

you just have to live.”

  - Natalie Babbitt

(Tuck Everlasting)

356/365 - Merely to be Normal (Albert Camus)

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy 

merely to be normal.”

  - Albert Camus

355/365 - It's all in the View (Sarah Dessen)

“It's all in the view.

That's what I mean about forever, too. 

For any one of us our forever could end in an hour,

 or a hundred years from now. 

You never know for sure, 

so you'd better make every second count.”

- Sarah Dessen 

  (The Truth About Forever)

354/365 - Don't Part with your Illusions (Mark Twain)

“Don't part with your illusions. 

When they are gone you may still exist, 

but you have ceased to live.”

  - Mark Twain

353/365 - How much Good Inside a Day? (Shel Silverstein)

“How many slams in an old screen door? 

 Depends how loud you shut it.

 How many slices in a bread? 

Depends how thin you cut it. 

How much good inside a day? 

Depends how good you live 'em. 

How much love inside a friend? 

Depends how much you give 'em.”

- Shel Silverstein

352/365 - Stop a Heart from Breaking (Emily Dickinson)

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, 

I shall not live in vain.”

  - Emily Dickinson

351/365 - On Death (Mitch Albom)

“Death ends a life, 

not a relationship.”

- Mitch Albom 

(Tuesdays with Morrie)

350/365 - Comforted by a Lie (Khaled Hosseini)

“But better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
 

- Khaled Hosseini

349/365 - Delicious Ambiguity (Gilda Radner)

“I wanted a perfect ending. 

Now I've learned,

 the hard way,

 that some poems don't rhyme,

 and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. 

Life is about not knowing, 

having to change, 

taking the moment and making the best of it,

 without knowing what's going to happen next.

Delicious Ambiguity.”

- Gilda Radner