Quotes About Happiness

But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't.

I wouldn't worry about it too much. But I guess I did worry about it […] And I wonder if anyone is really happy

I look at people holding hands in the hallways, and I try to think about how it all works. At the school dances, I sit in the background, and I tap my toe, and I wonder how many couples will dance to "their song." In the hallways, I see the girls wearing the guys' jackets, and I think about the idea of property. And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are.

And we kept dancing. It was the only time all day that I really wanted the clock to stop. And just be there for a long time.

We all get an ending. Whether or not it's happy is up to us.

It's like when you're excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other times you see the same couple, and they make you so mad. And all you want is to always feel happy for them because you know that if you do, it means that you're happy, too.

No more pencils/no more books/no more teachers' dirty looks/when the teacher rings the bell/drop your books and run like hell. When

then Patrick started running after the sunset. And Sam immediately followed him. And I saw them in silhouette. Running after the sun. Then, I started running. And everything was as good as it could be.

Five minutes of a lifetime were truly spent and we felt young in a good way.

Do you know what I like about comedy? You can't laugh and be afraid at the same time—of anything. If you're laughing, I defy you to be afraid.

why were you happier when you were a kid? Because you didn't know anything. The more you know, the sadder you get.

Tailwinds are like smiles from beautiful women—rare and to be cherished.

Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy.

At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way. He conceived persons with torn bodies to be peculiarly happy. He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage.

Isn't joy a kind of stillness at the top of something, before the long falling?

Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice.

It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and explain them. Art matters. Happiness matters. Love matters. Good matters. Evil matters. Slam the fridge door. They are the only things that matter and they are of course precisely the things that science goes out of its way to ignore.

Just as it is the love of money that is the root of all evil, it is the belief in shamefulness that is the root of all misery.

If I had been psychopathic enough to feel no remorse or religious enough to believe in redemption through a divine outside agency, perhaps I should have been happier; as it was I had neither the consolation that I was free of guilt, nor the conviction that I could ever be forgiven.

I was happy there. Which is to say I was not unhappy there. Unhappiness and happiness I have always been able to carry about with me, irrespective of place and people, because I have never joined in.

Could do better' is a meaningless conclusion. 'Could be happier' is the only one that counts.

people who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can't.

If you wouldn't mind coming with us, sir? I am arresting you now and will shortly make a formal charge at the station.' I was so happy, so blissfully, radiantly, wildly happy that if I could have sung I would have sung. If I could have danced I would have danced. I was free. At last I was free. I was going on a journey now where every decision would be taken for me, every thought would be thought for me and every day planned for me. I was going back to school.

His heart lifted to a state approaching something like happiness, however, when he heard, unexpectedly, the sound of Rhea's low sweet voice humming gently to herself as she came up the slope towards the mountaintop. Loveliest sister and dearest wife! It was quite natural that she had been a little upset by his consumption of their six children, but she surely understood that he had had no choice. She was a Titan, she knew about duty and destiny.