229/365 - Having Children (Michael Levine)

“Having children 

makes you no more a parent 

han having a piano

 makes you a pianist.”

  - Michael Levine

228/365 - Embrace who and what you are (Laurell K. Hamilton)

“There comes a point

 when you either embrace who 

and what you are,

 or condemn yourself to be miserable 

all your days.

 Other people will try to make you miserable; 

don't help them

by doing the job yourself.”
 

- Laurell K. Hamilton

227/365 - The Past has no power (Eckhart Tolle)

“The past has no power 

over the present moment.”

  - Eckhart Tolle

226/365 - He who stands for nothing (Alexander Hamilton)

“He who stands for nothing 

will fall for anything.”

  - Alexander Hamilton

225/365 - Learn from the Mistakes (Groucho Marx)

“Learn from the mistakes of others. 

You can never live long enough

 to make them all yourself.”

  - Groucho Marx

224/365 - That gives success its flavor (Truman Capote)

“Failure is the condiment 

that gives success its flavor.”

  - Truman Capote

223/365 - The Simple Things (Paulo Coelho)

“The simple things

 are also the most extraordinary things,

 and only the wise

 can see them.”

- Paulo Coelho

The Alchemist

222/365 - The Delusion of Beauty (Leo Tolstoy)

“It is amazing how complete

 is the delusion

 that beauty is goodness.”

  - Leo Tolstoy

The Kreutzer Sonata

221/365 - We may learn Wisdom (Confucius)

“By three methods

 we may learn wisdom: 

First, by reflection, 

which is noblest; 

Second, by imitation, 

which is easiest; 

and third by experience,

 which is the bitterest.”

  - Confucius

220/365 - Let no man (Martin Luther King Jr.)

“Let no man pull you so low 

as to hate him.”

  - Martin Luther King Jr.

(A Knock at Midnight: 

Inspiration from the Great Sermons

 of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.)

219/365 - What you are afraid to do (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

“Always do

 what you are afraid to do.”

  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

218/365 - It is its own purpose (Ayn Rand)

“My happiness is not the means to any end. 

It is the end.

 It is its own goal. 

It is its own purpose.”

  - Ayn Rand

(Anthem)

217/365 - If you don't know everything (Alexander McCall Smith)

“It is sometimes easier to be happy 

if you don't know everything.”

- Alexander McCall Smith

(Morality for Beautiful Girls)

216/365 - To have it done to them (Leo Tolstoy)

“A quiet secluded life in the country, 

with the possibility of being useful to people

 to whom it is easy to do good,

 and who are not accustomed 

to have it done to them; 

then work which one hopes may be of some use;

 then rest, nature, books, music,

 love for one's neighbor — 

such is my idea of happiness.”

  - Leo Tolstoy

(Family Happiness)

215/365 - Recognize what makes you happy (Lucille Ball)

“It's a helluva start, 

being able to recognize what makes you happy. ”

- Lucille Ball

214/365 - Ectasy and Agony (Paulo Coelho)

“After all, what is happiness?

 Love, they tell me. 

 But love doesn't bring

and never has brought happiness. 

On the contrary, 

it's a constant state of anxiety,

 a battlefield;

 it's sleepless nights, 

asking ourselves all the time 

if we're doing the right thing.

 Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.”

  - Paulo Coelho

 (The Witch Of Portobello)

213/365 - Whoever is happy (Anne Frank)

“Whoever is happy 

will make others happy.”

- Anne Frank

(The Diary of a Young Girl)

212/365 - Children are Happy (Marianne Williamson)

“Children are happy 

because they don't have a file 

in their minds called: 

"All the Things That Could Go Wrong.”

  - Marianne Williamson

211/365 - Choosing Happiness (Elizabeth Gilbert)

“I'm choosing happiness over suffering, 

I know I am.

 

 I'm making space 

 for the unknown future

 to fill up my life 

with yet-to-come surprises.”

  - Elizabeth Gilbert

(Eat, Pray, Love)

210/365 - Human Perfectibility (Edgar Allan Poe)

“I have no faith in human perfectibility. 

I think that human exertion

 will have no appreciable effect upon humanity.

 Man is now only more active - 

not more happy - 

nor more wise, 

than he was 6000 years ago.”

- Edgar Allan Poe

209/365 - I'd far rather be happy (Douglas Adams)

“I'd far rather be happy 

than right 

any day.”

  - Douglas Adams

(The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

208/365 - The same good things (Friedrich Nietzsche)

“The advantage of a bad memory 

is that one enjoys several times 

the same good things

 for the first time.”

  - Friedrich Nietzsche

207/365 - Purpose of Life (Aristotle)

“Happiness is the meaning 

and the purpose of life,

 the whole aim and end 

of human existence.”

  - Aristotle

206/365 - Calculate his Happiness (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

“Man only likes to count his troubles; 

he doesn't calculate his happiness.”

  - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

(Notes from Underground)

205/365 - One of the keys to Happiness (Rita Mae Brown)

“One of the keys to happiness 

is a bad memory.”

  - Rita Mae Brown

204/365 - Happiness makes up in height (Robert Frost)

“Happiness makes up in height 

for what it lacks in length.”

  - Robert Frost

203/365 - Value Yourself (Ayn Rand)

 

“Learn to value yourself, 

which means: 

fight for your happiness.”
 

- Ayn Rand

202/365 - One million times (Jonathan Safran Foer)

“I think and think and think, 

I‘ve thought myself out of happiness 

one million times, 

but never once into it.”

  - Jonathan Safran Foer

201/365 - What Happiness Cannot (Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez)

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”

  - Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

200/365 - Always enjoy things (L.M. Montgomery)

“It's been my experience

 that you can nearly always enjoy things

 if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”

- L.M. Montgomery

(Anne of Green Gables)