Quotes about happiness

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“She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.”

“And if you don´t commit? I asked. Your choice. But you miss what´s on the other side. What´s on the other side? "Ah" he smiled. "A happiness you cannot find alone”

“When you are happy, you are sexy”

“Coyote to Mercy:

"I didn't know about you until a lot later. Then I stopped to check you out. You looked happy running with the wolves. They looked bewildered- which is as it should be when a coyote plays with wolves.”

“People are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they want still more. Once they have more, they wish they could be happy with little, but are incapable of making the slightest effort in that direction.”

“You needn't die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the end and ka is always served.”

“Allowing someone else to make us happy will make them happy too.”

“I can offer you my life, though it is a short life. I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many beats it shall sustain. But I love you enough to hope the rest of my life-whatever its length-happy, by spending it with you.-Jem.”

“Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.”

“All who joy would win
Must share it -- Happiness was born a twin.”

“In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.”

“What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.”

“If it meant that I would never get to think of you that way, as long as you were happy, it was okay.”

“We are one of those couples i used to watch, thinking to myself that I'd never be on the inside of something so special. I remember reassuring myself that it probably looked nicer than it actually was, I am happy to be wrong about that.”

“Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.”

“Rest, nature, books, music…such is my idea of happiness.”

“It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.”

“There was something I wanted, something I envisioned, loving parents, a happy home with everyone smiling at me. A home that no one would ever want to leave, a warm place, a warm person. It exists, I know it does”

“Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.”

“I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.”

“Nobody's life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were, they wouldn't be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. How would you ever know happiness if you never experience downs?”

“this might be the happy ending without the ending”

“Of course I saved you," she said. "I couldn't do without you." And because she was happy and flushed with magic, Holly leaned down and kissed Artemis, magic sparking around the contact like tiny fireworks.”

“Happiness does not come from consumption of things.”

“Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason […] When we waste time, we waste happiness.”

“You want us to fly off to save the world on Happy The Dragon?”

“If people try to judge you or shame you for doing safe, consensual things that make you happy, I can guarantee you they're bad people.”

“I've always been happy with you," he said. "But I never thought I deserved it."
"And now you do?"
"And now the feeling's gone," he said. "All I know is that I love you and for the first time, that's good enough.”

“How were we to know we were happy?”

“He would wake for no reason in the middle of the night, and the memory of the self-absorbed love was revealed to him for what it was: a pitfall of happiness that he despised and desired at the same time, but from which it was impossible to escape.”

“I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.”

“People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.”

“You forget who submits, Eva,” he said gruffly. “I’ve given up control for you. I’ve bent and adjusted for you. I’ll do anything to keep you and make you happy. But I can’t be tamed or topped. Don’t mistake indulgence for weakness.”

“Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes”

“It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness.”

“happiness aint got no Ph. D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!”

“Happiness, not in another place but this place… not for another hour, but this hour.”

“Be mild, and cleave to gentle things,
thy glory and thy happiness be there.”

“You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.”

“To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.”

“Happiness. It comes on
unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really,
any early morning talk about it.”

“When the stakes are this high- when calling God by the right name can make the difference between eternal happiness and eternal suffering, it is impossible to respect the beliefs of others who don't believe as you do.”

“I want to talk to you. I want to listen to you. I want to walk with you and, yes, I want you in my bed. That's what I want today. That's what I'll want in a hundred years. If you promise to be my wife forever, I will pledge myself to your happiness.”

“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.”

“What were you like," I asked her. "we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to?”

“Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.”

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”

“Joyful, joyful, joyful,
as only dogs know how to be happy
with only the autonomy
of their shameless spirit.”

“I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.”

“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.”

“Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness.”

“I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.”

“I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me.”

“You were my wonderfully bespoke original guide to happiness.”

“Oh my God," he said. "A kind word from Rose Hathaway. I can die a happy man.”

“I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.”

“Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.”

“I'm not a very happy person," I told him."But sometimes I can trick myself into thinking I am.”

“That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!”

“(Man in bar) Can you imagine a world without men? (Sylvia) No crime, and lots of happy, fat women.”

“That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough.”

“In a person's lifetime there may be not more than half a dozen occasions that he can look back to in the certain knowledge that right then, at that moment, there was room for nothing but happiness in his heart.”

“What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.”

“Albums that remind me of my childhood happiness make me incredibly sad now.”

“She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one.”

“Very little is needed to make a happy life.”

“Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.”

“Don't wish me happiness — I don't expect to be happy; it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor — I will need them all.”

“FUTURE, n.
That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.”

“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”

“It is necessary to hope… for hope itself is happiness.”

“We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to have any happiness at all, it is only in the passing instant.”

“Happiness is a hound dog in the sun. We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things.

- Hannah Schneider”

“Whoever said you can't buy Happiness forgot little puppies.”

“You will never find happiness until you stop looking for it.”

“I have given up considering happiness as relevant.”

“Calvin: From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success…. I'm just here to cash in.
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“I don't like to feel so crazy about someone," he said. "I don't like to feel like my happiness is so tied up in another person.”

“Most men are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

“I belong to you. You could do anything you wanted with me and I would let you. You could ask anything of me and I'd break myself trying to make you happy.”

“There has to be a moment when you choose happiness, when you stand up, raise your face towards the sun, and just grab joy and put it in a place where no one can ever take it away from you.”

“You can be happy with money and you can be wretched with it. It depends on what kind of person you are.”

“I don't believe in fate," she said at last. "But I do believe in… loopholes. I think a lot of what keeps the world going is the result of accidents — happy or otherwise — and taking advantage of these.”

“Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.”

“The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.'

Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.”

“I tried to communicate happiness in that word, but I don't know if it came out that way. All I was feeling was despair. And envy. Envy so thick and so black I felt like I was choking on it.”

“Poor Earthworm,' the Ladybird said, whispering in James's ear. 'He loves to make everything into a disaster. He hates to be happy. He is only happy when he is gloomy.”

“Beauty and love pass, I know… Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses”

“Happiness is a Slurpee and a hot pink straw.”

“Spader and I were nearly killed. Three times. We were also robbed and witnessed a gruesome murder. Happy birthday to me!”

“I was yours once 'till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now - I can't hang about whining forever - and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness?”

“But I am happy. And happiness, I have decided, is a noble ambition.”

“No man is happy who does not think himself so.”

“Who is Alice?" asked mother.
"Alice is somebody that nobody can see," said Frances. "And that is why she does not have a birthday. So I am singing Happy Thursday to her." - Frances the badger”

“There was a species of middle pretty who smiled at everything: happy smile, disappointed smile, you're-in-trouble smile.”

“I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.”

“Farewell happy fields,
Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.”

“I grasped two things: I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasnt going to change unless I made it change.”

“Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?”