“For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The joys of life can be found anywhere. Far places only offer exotic ways to suffer.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I always thought happiness was a choice and I always chose things that made me happy, and books were one of those. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“If you're still, and if you don't hope too much, peace will come to you. It's a grace. But you have to… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Hope requires the contender Who sees no virtue in surrender. From the cradle to the bier, The heart must persevere. —The Book… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Even when acceptance is achieved and a degree of happiness attained, joy often remains elusive forever, like a promise of water in… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
He is different, and there will be many people you love who will be unhappy with you. You don’t want them to… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Envy, envy eats them alive. If you had money, they’d envy you that. But since you don’t, they envy you for having… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“She would have thought that working and living in continuous happiness, harmony, and security day after day would lead to mental lethargy,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“One thing seemed to suggest that I might have some wisp of beauty to offer the world: the nature of my heart,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Waiting is one of the things that humans beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“This kind of derangement is emblematic of humankind. Grave faults are said to be only eccentricities, and imperfections are routinely celebrated as mere differences… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“He often remembered his dad's admonition that envy was mental theft. If you coveted another man's possessions, Dad said, then you should be willing… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Her mother said that three great powers kept the universe going. The first and the strongest was God. Each of the two additional powers… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“I stopped keeping an eye out for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve because, when I was five, my mother told me that Santa was… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“To one degree or another, I have been happy most of my life, in part because the world has infinite charms if you wish… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“This life is just a bootcamp, to test and toughen us, to prepare us for the next life of service in some great adventure.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“A madman should have a madman’s laugh, not the warm chuckle of a favorite uncle.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Anger was a reliable defense, but one that allowed no chance of final victory. Anger was a medicine but never a cure, briefly numbing… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Nothing is predetermined for us, and yet all our possible choices are threads in the vast weave of things, so that we have free… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“In fact, time teaches us that the musical score of life oscillates between that of Psycho and that of The Sound of Music, with… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
