“Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.”

“The problems we face now – poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad – will last only as long as we continue relying on the same politicians who created them. A change in leadership is required to change these outcomes.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

“Why should we think upon things that are lovely Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.”

William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist

“Happiness simply cannot be relied upon as a measure of success.”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

“I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.”

Neil Jordan (1950) Irish filmmaker and fiction writer

“why don’t we root the positive in each and everyone’s life instead of searching the negatives in them”? Why don’t we love and accept others with their strengths and weakness? Why don’t we break the barriers and traditions that are followed blindly, which doesn’t help the community in which we are living? Why don’t we smile and acknowledge others at least for a second, which can cause a tremendous change in others lives?”

Tiffany Brar (1988) Indian Social Activist

“And this is Love! Oh! why should woman love;
Wasting her dearest feelings, till health, hope,
Happiness, are but things of which henceforth
She'll only know the name?”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist

“I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you knew my soul.”

Joyce Carol Oates (1938) American author

“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.”
Tota felicitas aut infelicitas in hoc solo sita est; videlicet in qualitate obiecti, cui adhaeremus amore.

Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) Dutch philosopher

“The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.”

Ezra Taft Benson (1899–1994) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints