“ But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of? ”
My happiness has to come from within myself or it is too fragile a thing to be of any use to me and too much of a burden to benefit any of my loved ones.
~ Mary Balogh
There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.
Why do I want to run from happiness?
He wished someone in the course of history had thought of striking that word and all its derivatives from the English Language - happy, happier, happiest, happiness. What the devil did the words really mean anyway? Why not just the word pleasure, which was far more... well, pleasant.
