"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."

-- Dalai Lama

#Happiness Quotes #Being Happy Quotes #Soulmate Quotes

“Talking to Lee Child and discovering, from his chapter in The Chopin Manuscript, that he's even more of an audio geek than I am (as his chapter in Chopin proves).”
“Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.”
“Why be an average person? All the great achievements of history have been made by strong individuals who refused to consult statistics or to listen to those who could prove convincingly that what they wanted to do, and in fact ultimately did do, was completely impossible.”
“It's not about facts, it's about feelings. It's about remembering feelings and happiness. A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It's the most abstract of all art expression.”
“If you put your heart against the earth with me In serving every creature, our Beloved will enter you From our sacred realm, and we will be, we will be So happy.”
“Officially there are no fates worse than death. Unofficially, there is a profusion of such fates. For some people, just living with the thought that they will die is a fate worse than death itself.”
“Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.”

Source : Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.128, ReadHowYouWant.com
“I looked over at her; if women knew how good they looked in the dash light of oversized pickup trucks, they'd never get out of them.”

Source : Craig Johnson (2013). “The Walt Longmire Mystery Series Boxed Set”, p.336, Penguin

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