Edna St. Vincent Millay on happiness

My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends⁠—
It gives a lovely light!

The world stands out on either side
No wider than the heart is wide;
Above the world is stretched the sky,⁠—
No higher than the soul is high.

I cannot say what loves have come and gone,
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

Dr. Seuss1904–1991

It was when I was happiest that I longed most…The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing…to find the place where all the beauty came from.

C. S. Lewis1898–1963Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (1956), Pt. 1, VII (Psyche)

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Think of all the beauty that’s still left in and around you, and be happy.

Anne Frank1929–1945

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