When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness. In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt, but happiness and love are worth it...
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it. Immanuel Hermann Fichte
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. Storm Jameson
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance. The laws of Manu
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables, 1862
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