Well travelled shopper with loads of snark and a tricky trigger figure on the iphone camera button.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity .

—C. G. Jung

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

—Mark Twain

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be “happy” is not included in the plan of “Creation.

—SIGMUND FREUD, Civilization and Its Discontents

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

—Salvador Dali

Jumping for joy is good exercise.  ~Author Unknown

Jumping for joy is good exercise. ~Author Unknown

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

—J. D. Salinger