Quotes About Happiness

She was always tired, these days. She put on one of those smiles that wasn't really a smile at all, and they went on.

Who was it who had said you were only as happy as your unhappiest child?

I know I shouldn't be," he murmured, "but I woke up really happy." His face scanned hers. "I mean, like, really, stupidly happy. Like even though my whole life is a disaster, I just...I feel okay. I look at you, and I feel okay.

Jess's grandmother had often said that the key to a happy life was a short memory.

Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.

Life is complicated. Which is why finding a little joy where you can is important.

All I can say is that you make me...you make me into someone I couldn't even imagine. You make me happy even when you're awful. I would rather be with you, even the you you seem to think is diminished, than with anyone else in the world.

Sometimes, she told herself, life was a series of obstacles that just had to be negotiated, possibly through sheer act of will. She stared out at the muddy blue of the endless sea, gulped in the air, lifted her chin, and decided that she could survive this. She could survive most things. It was nobody's right to be happy, after all.

I wanted to live as Edouard did, joyfully, sucking the marrow out of every moment and singing because it tasted so good.

It had been years before she could view anybody else's happiness without mourning the loss of her own.

A veces, Clark, tú eres la única razón que tengo para levantarme por las mañanas. —Entonces, vamos a alguna parte. —Las palabras salieron de mi boca antes incluso de que supieraque iba a pronunciarlas. —¿Qué? —Vamos a alguna parte. Una semana, solo para divertirnos. Tú y yo. Ni uno solo de estos... Will esperó. —¿Imbéciles? —... imbéciles. Di que sí, Will. Vamos.

Lo que sé es esto: nadie lo consigue todo. Y nosotras las inmigrantes lo sabemos mejor que nadie. Tienes siempre un pie en cada sitio. Nunca puedes ser feliz del todo porque cuando marchas te partes en dos y dondequiera que vayas una mitad está siempre llamando a la otra. Ese es el precio, Louisa. El precio a pagar por quienes somos. Tomó un sorbo de su vaso y

It's almost impossible to feel crap after eating a really great spaghetti bolognese.

he makes my heart flutter like a clean sheet on a long line.

I don't want my happiness to be entirely dependent on somebody else's, to be a hostage to fortunes I cannot control.

I know it's not how you would have chosen it,but I know I can make you happy. And all I can say is that you make... you make me into someone I couldn't even imagine. You make me happy,even when you're awful. I would rather be with you-even the you that you seem to diminished-than with anyone else in the world.

I sang in the shower, lay awake dreaming. I wore my old dresses, my brightly colored cardigans and my satin pumps, and let myself be enclosed in a bubble of happiness, conscious that bubbles only ever existed for so long before they popped anyway.

He smiled, the kind of smile that denotes private happiness, the kind where you have nothing to prove.

I know we can do this. I know it's not how you would have chosen it, but I know I can make you happy. And all I can say in that you make me… you make me into someone I couldn't even imagine. You make me happy, even when you're awful, I would rather be with you - even the you that you seem to think is diminished - than with anyone else in the world.

Very few troubles in life couldn't be lessened by a nice smile—that was what her mother always said.

I thought I was happy. I thought my life was fine. And then you came along, and nothing . . . nothing makes sense anymore.

Time flew, and each ended the night full and happy, with the rare glow that comes from knowing your very being has been understood by somebody else, and that there might just be someone out there who will only ever see the best in you.

I never new real happiness until you

Hey Clark," he said, "Tell me something good.