Quotes About Happiness

My heart moved through deep and silent water. No-one, and nothing, could really hurt me. No-one, and nothing, could make me very happy. I was tough, which is probably the saddest thing you can say about a man.

pitiable understanding that no happiness exists without its woe, no wealth without its cost, and no life without its full measure, sooner or later, of sorrowing and death.

Happiness is a myth, Karla once said. It was invented to make us buy things.

If you have a chance at real happiness, whatever the cost, you have to take it.

People haven't stopped believing in love. They haven't stopped wanting to be in love. They just don't believe in a happy ending anymore. They still believe in love, and falling in love, but they know how that...they know that romances almost never end as well as they begin.

I want everything, she replied with a faint, wry smile. You know, I said that once, to a friend of mine, and he told me that the real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it.

The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering. -Farid

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the real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it.

And her forehead was always slightly creased in the centre, between the brows, as if she was grasping, in those soft folds of skin, the monstrous and pitiable understanding that no happiness exists without its woe, no wealth without its cost, and no life without its full measure, sooner or later, of sorrowing and death.

But we made the night bright and the sunlight right a lot of the time, and never felt used or unloved.

I want everything,' she replied with a faint, wry smile. 'You know I said that once, to a friend of mine, and he told me that the real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it.

She walked out with Prabaker, and I spun around on one foot, whispering a shout of joy while I did an excited little dance.

Trying to be happier is as futile as trying to be taller

You know, I said that once, to a friend of mine, and he told me that the real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it.

Children played everywhere. Men carried water in buckets. Men made repairs to one of the huts. And everywhere that I looked, people smiled and laughed.

No-one, and nothing, could hurt me. No-one, and nothing, could make me very happy. I was tough, which is probably the saddest thing you can say about a man.

She saw me, and smiled. Those things inside, when the woman you love smiles at you: those spears of courage, that rain.

Freedom and happiness and justice and even love are all parts of the same whole: peace, within.

And there were more smiles in the eyes on those crowded streets than in any other place I'd ever known.

Happiness is a myth, Karla snapped back angrily. It was invented to make us buy things.

It was the kind of laugh that hunted down funny things, and killed them stone dead.

Love is connection, and happiness is the connected self.

You can be happy and afraid and angry in your dreams, but you have to be wide awake to be sad, don't you think?