Quotes about happiness

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“That no matter what i did, I would always be missing something else. And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, was to make sure the things I didn't miss meant more to me than the things I missed.”

“Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,
Are a substantial world, both pure and good:
Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,
Our pastime and our happiness will grow.”

“You're not happy to see me, then?' Jace said. 'I have to say, I'm surprised. I've always been told my presence brightened up any room. One might think that went doubly for dank underground cells.”

“Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.”

“Then why haven’t you killed yourself? (Astrid)
Why should I? The only enjoyment I have in my life is knowing I piss off everyone around me. If I were dead, it would make them all happy. God forbid I should ever do that. (Zarek)”

“I think that hurting gives us a way to measure being happy. How can you know one without knowing the other.”

“Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy.”

“Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.”

“Is he making you happy? I don’t mean some of the time, on rare occasions, not that often, “but the good still outweighs the bad.” Does he make it clear in his actions every day that your happiness is important to him?”

“Why did happy memories fade and blur until one could scarcely recall them at all, while horrible memories seemed to retain their blinding clarity and painful sharpness?”

“Imperfections are attractive when their owners are happy with them.”

“Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast." ~”

“And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are.”

“Real life doesn’t have many happy endings. Why shouldn’t books make up the difference?”

“Everybody in the world is seeking happiness—and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.”

“Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed not just on actual circumstances but on a promise that was not kept?”

“Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole.”

“Everyone likes happiness, no one likes pain. But you can't have a rainbow without a little rain.”

“It is incredible how one can be happy for so many years in the midst of so many squabbles, so many problems, damn it, and not really know if it was love or not.”

“It was the kind of kiss I could never tell my friends about out loud. It was the kind of kiss that made me know I was never so happy in my whole life.”

“I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.”

“Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right one at the right time can make all the difference.”

“If you want to be happy, be.”

“Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.”

“Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.”

“One is never alone with a book nearby, don't you agree? Every page reminds us of a day that has passed and makes us relive the emotions that filled it. Happy hours underlined in red pencil, dark ones in black…”

“Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.”

“This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?"

"I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness just because you're with me?"

"Yes," she said.

"That's influenza," said Miro. "Watch for nausea or diarrhea within a few hours.”

“I secretly wondered if Dimitri's problem might be that he was jealous. He hadn't pulled Lissa aside to yell at her. The thought made me slightly happy, but then I remembered my earlier curiosity about why Dimitri had even wandered by.”

“There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.”

“I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.”

“I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.”

“I guess forgiveness, like happiness, isn’t a final destination. You don’t one day get there and get to stay.”

“when I think about sex, you know, I want it to feel good. Not feel good, shut up, but right. Happy, not just banging away somewhere. You know, you should not just do it to do it. You should love the guy.”

“Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.”

“Happiness begins where selfishness ends.”

“My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.”

“The therapists told you that you needed to find happiness within yourself before you got it from another person.”

“Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants…”

“Just me and the future, finally together. Now there was a happy ending I could believe in.”

“This is the trouble with all happiness -all of it is built on top of something men want.”

“There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.”

“Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.”

“My family shouldn't have to put up with me. They're good people, solid, happy. Sometimes when I'm with them I think I'm on television.”

“If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.”

“It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.”

“I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.”

“To just let go, and not pick everything to death. To just let go and enjoy what you had. To just let go and not make everybody around you miserable with your own internal dialogue. To just let go and be happy. So simple. So difficult. So terrifying.”

“Once more I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. It is not a rare bird which we must pursue at one moment in heaven, at the next in our minds. Happiness is a domestic bird found in our own courtyards.”

“I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.”

“He walks in daylight. But, like a demon, he’s weaker then. He seems to have the powers of a god, but no followers. What would you call him? (Xypher)
I wouldn’t call him anything that didn’t make him deliriously happy. (Simone)”

“I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you knew my soul.”

“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”

“Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?”

“The source of all unhappiness is other people. As soon as you learn to
think of other people as noisy furniture, the sooner you will be happy.
- Wally's Keynote Speech”

“It's a long hard road ahead for you, little warrior. Enjoy a happy day while you can.

—Boldred”

“Today the mockingbird does not sound very happy. It sounds if it is coming apart. As of the very heart of itself-its song-is breaking into pieces and flying off in a hundred directions.”

“Have you ever noticed how when you're happy, time seems to pass by fast, while when you're miserable it goes real slow? Life would have been a blink with you whether it lasted a millennium or a month.”

“I grabbed her, right there outside the lunch room in the swarming mob. I didn't care if others were watching. In fact, i hoped they were. I grabbed her and squeezed her. I had never been so happy and so proud in my life.”

“She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its happiness still clung like gold dust to her lashes. Don't dreams in fairy tales sometimes leave a token behind?”

“Happy endings are a luxury of fiction.”

“Life was always easier, reflected Issy, when you were carrying a large Tupperware full of cakes. Everyone was happy to see you then.”

“The happiness of society is the end of government.”

“I want you to be happy, and him to be happy. And yet when you walk that aisle to meet him and join yourselves forever you will walk an invisible path of the shards of my heart Tessa. I would give over my own life for either of yours.”

“We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it—that makes no sense. What mycould never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time.”

“Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all
Him whom to love is to obey, and keep
His great command!”

“It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery.”

“He bared his teeth in a happy feral grin. My own personal psycho.”

“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.”

“Who said we were owed happiness?”

“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

“The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.”

“You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.”

“We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
We are monkeys with money and guns.”

“What sexual preference do you hope she has?” “Happiness.” Isnt that cool?”

“You promise me, he said. That you love him. Enough to marry him and make him happy.”

“It made you happy…”

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”

“The dead don't desire revenge, but the happiness of the livng. To dirty your small hands would bring joy to no one.
-Kenshin to Eiji”

“The secret to happiness… be satisfied and be grateful.”

“My condition is not unhappiness, but it is also not happiness, not indifference, not weakness, not fatigue, not another interest – so what is it then?”

“I was a fool! Loving someone who doesn't love you is hell! Don't ever let anyone convince you that you can be happy with someone who doesn't love you.”

“No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.”

“There's a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in these streets, and of a general state of longing, a hunger for life to begin that from this distance seems like happiness.”

“Community is a sign that love is possible in a materialistic world where people so often either ignore or fight each other. It is a sign that we don't need a lot of money to be happy--in fact, the opposite.”

“Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.”

“Wisdom is doing now what you are going to be happy with later on”

“We might be on the same page, but I wasn't happy about reading it.”

“To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.”

“It was the kind of kiss that made
me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.”

“We must spoil our women, boy. A happy woman makes a happy home. An unhappy one makes us drink.”

“I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.”

“Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.”

“It didn't fit her ideas of who was bad, and who was good, and what was a happy ending, and what wasn't.”

“They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.”

“Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.”

“The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy is the same as letting go of our unhappiness.”

“Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily..”

“If happiness is the absence of fever then I will never know happiness. For I am posessed by a fever for knowledge, experience and creation.”