Charles Dickens

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before–more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

Grief never mended no broken bones.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we’d give blood.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

If you want to be happy, be.

When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.

Happiness isn’t a one-size-fits-all proposition. You must define what it looks like for you and then make a conscious effort to access whatever gets you to your unique definition of joy.

A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

Happy is harder than money. Anyone who thinks money will make them happy, doesn’t have money.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy, it’s only necessary to be rich.