Quotes About Happiness

One time Gifford had asked Mona: "What's the difference between men and women?" Mona had said: "Men don't know what can happen. They're happy. But women know everything that can happen. They worry all the time.

But again that sense of peace descended, that spell of perfect happiness, and I was traveling back through the years to the little French church of my childhood as the hymns began. Through my tears I saw the shining altar. I saw the icon of the Virgin, a gleaming square of gold above the flowers; I heard the Aves whispered as if they were a charm. Under the arches of Notre Dame de Paris I heard the priests singing "Salve Regina.

I wouldn't write a book to tell you that a vampire was happy.

Some of us are infinitely better at being miserable than happy.

The awareness of happiness comes after, in memory, with the belated appreciation of the moment.

It was not to relive the old pain that she had returned, it was to know again, for a little while, the joy that had gone before.

You play with your toys and your money and all your fine things, and you forget. You forget and that's why you're happy.

I think to be this happy is to be miserable, to feel this much satisfaction is to burn.

The problem with retiring to a desert place was that Daniel would hate it. And keeping Daniel happy was the second rule of his life, as his own sense of well-being, his own capacity to open his eyes each evening with some desire to actually rise from the dead and celebrate the gift of life, was connected to and sustained by making Daniel happy.

Why don't people do what they really want to do, Reuben?" he asked. "Why do we so often settle for what makes us devoutly unhappy! Why do we accept that happiness just isn't possible?

Some of us are infinitely better at being miserable than happy," he said gently. "We're good at it, and proud of it, and we get better and better at it, and we simply don't know what it means to be happy.

Y mi alma oscura es feliz otra vez porque no sabe sentirse de otra forma durante mucho tiempo y porque el dolor es un mar profundo y tenebroso en el que me ahogaría si no pilotara con firmeza mi pequeña nave por su superficie, siempre con rumbo a un sol que no saldrá jamás.

I'd demeaned and insulted those who didn't know how to be happy. Yes, I was determined to be happy. And I fought furiously for ways to be happy.

Soe of us are infinitely better at being miserable than happy.

I wanted darkness. To hide from her and the feelings that welled up in me, and the great consuming fear that I was utterly inadequate to make her happy, or to make myself happy by pleasing her.

Alienation, a lack of trust either in happiness or in others.

Be old enough and patient enough for kinds of love, seasons of it, be quiet in your soul so that when happiness comes again, if it ever does, you will know.

He had a dawning sense of how much delight awaited him.

And I've more reason now than ever to say that happiness is not what I will ever know, or will ever deserve to know. I am not so much in love with happiness.

I myself had not known the lines of human expression still remained to me, and I was most happy to discover them, and I rather liked the image that I presented in the glass.

He looked rather radiant in his rapture with her, and she was beaming back.

Her lean face, with its well-shaped pale lips, broke into the freshest and most robust smile, as if neglect and pain had never gnawed at her.

Never had I seen Amadeo so obsessed with either love or misery, with either happiness or grief. But the man was stubborn, the man was drunk, and the man wanted one thing from this strange person prodding him and that was more wine.

That was the test of love, he thought dreamily, when you can't bear to be this happy without the other person with you. He was really afraid that