I’m often asked how I define “success.” It’s an overused term, but I fundamentally view this elusive beast as a combination of two things – achievement and appreciation.

Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.

The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is – here’s the clincher – boredom.

“I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still.” 

“Love is Immortality.” 

“Till I loved I never liked enough.” 

“They say that 'home is where the heart is.' I think it is where the house is, and the adjacent buildings.” 

“Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.” 

“Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.” 

“My friends are my estate.” 

“That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.” 

“My love for those I love -- not many -- not very many, but don't I love them so?” 

“Judge tenderly of me.” 

“Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.” 

“We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore.” 

“But a Book is only the Heart's Portrait- every Page a Pulse.” 

“Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.” 

“I felt it shelter to speak to you.” 

“Till I loved I never lived.” 

“The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.” 

“The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care” 

“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.” 

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.” 

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”