logo

Quotes About Happiness

Sometimes—not very often, in any life—there come days so perfect and seamless and golden that you remember them always. Almost everyone has them, though some, I think, have more than others. It just isn't given to everyone to simply love a day for its own sake. But they are the very coin of memory, and you can pull them out over and over again and fondle them, and spend them, and they are never depleted.
~ Anne Rivers Siddons
Whatever changes there are in the world I hope you will never forsake me and I shall be happy.
~ Anne Somerset
I had rather live in a cottage with you than reign empress of all the world without you.
~ Anne Somerset
I don't love you," he said. And he pulled her into his arms and kissed her, a kiss of passion and desperation, a kiss of deep currents and longing. "I don't love you," he said again. "Of course you don't," she murmured happily. And she followed him out the door, into the lion's den.
~ Anne Stuart
people notice the most beautiful dress every person can wear,......... a smile
~ Anne Stuart
You're only ever as happy as your least happy child?' 
~ Anne Tyler
She wasn't always angry. She had lots of good days.
~ Anne Tyler
When she grew up she was going to marry a man who came from a big, close, jolly family. He would get along with all of them—he'd be the same kind of man her father was
~ Anne Tyler
Who said, 'You're only ever as happy as your least happy child?' 
~ Anne Tyler
Let it be is the theme that dominates his existence. He sees himself as being ruled by a dreamy mood of acceptance that was partly the source of all his happiness and partly his undoing.
~ Anne Tyler
Who said, 'You're only ever as happy as your least happy child?' Ã¢â'¬Â she'd asked Ree in last week's pottery class. "Socrates," Ree answered promptly. "Really? I was thinking more along the lines of Michelle Obama.
~ Anne Tyler
She seemed to have fallen in love again. In love with her own husband! The convenience of it pleased her—like finding right in her pantry all the fixings she needed for a new recipe.
~ Anne Tyler
There's my downfall, son. I mean with anyone, any one of these lady friends, I just can't resist a person I make happy.
~ Anne Tyler
Who said, 'You're only ever as happy as your least happy child?
~ Anne Tyler
eventually you did. Happy endings all around.
~ Anne Tyler
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
~ Annie Dillard
People love the good not much less than the beautiful, and the happy as well, or even just the living, for the world of it all, and heart's home.
~ Annie Dillard
She laughed and broke into a run, racing out to grab handfuls of raindrops from the air, all alone in a world of diamonds.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Happy endings are popular. Do you not watch movies? Yeah, but that's movies, Darcy groaned. Books are above all that!
~ Scott Westerfeld
Life was going to be one big party from now on, full of beautiful people. Like Tally Youngblood
~ Scott Westerfeld
You don't look very happy. Tally tried to smile. David had shared his biggest secret with her; she should tell him hers. But she wasn't brave enough to say the words. It's been a long night. That's all. He smiled back. Don't worry, it won't last forever.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Tally snorted. "I don't think it's exactly boring, Shay." "Doing what you're supposed to do is always boring. I can't imagine anything worse than being required to have fun." "I can," Tally said quietly. "Never having any.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Bob had found fundamentally foreknowledged form in the way Annie giggled
~ Sean Penn
After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously happy in it.
~ Sebastian Barry