“Happy people die whole, they are all dissolved in a moment,
they have had what they wanted”

“If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints; they are the falling and the rising of the same wave, and the two form one whole.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

“She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.”

Agatha Christie Elephants Can Remember

“You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

“All his life he would hold this moment as exemplary of what love was. It was not wanting anything more, nor was it expecting people to exceed what they had just accomplished; it was simply feeling so complete.”

John Irving book A Widow for One Year

“Happiness is not having what you want, it is wanting what you have.”

Sheryl Crow (1962) American musician and actress

“Happiness is not having what you want but wanting what you have.”

Jimmy Stewart (1908–1997) American film and stage actor

“To be truthful i am not entirely sure what people mean when they talk of happiness. There are moments of joy and laughter, the comfort of friendship, but enduring happiness? If it exists i have not found it”

David Gemmell (1948–2006) British author of heroic fantasy

“My whole life I have suffered from poverty and have faced many disappointments and pain, like a man is used to. That is why I want to make other people happy and want them to feel at home.”

Jim Jones (1931–1978) founder and the leader of the Peoples Temple

“I'd be happy to die for a taste of what Angel had… Someone to live for… Unafraid to say 'I love you!”

Jonathan Larson (1960–1996) American composer and playwright