
Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
Variant: Are You Living or Just Existing?"
-Tyler Perry
The Family That Preys
Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
7 May 1944
(1942 - 1944)
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
“By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy.”
Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
Source: A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858), Ch. 10
Variant: Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
"The Science to Save Us from Science," The New York Times Magazine (19 March 1950)
1950s
Context: All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave. Many people desire those things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can only be refuted by science: Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.
Fifteen hours with Fabio http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/style/2015/12/23/fabio/?utm_term=.55d4ac289b9c (December 23, 2015)
Source: Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
“… because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.”
Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist