Quotes About Happiness

Love and laughter go together; and laughter is one of the greatest medicines.

He watched her go, wondering if life ever offered happiness in more than very small, very brief doses. T

For some people, happiness consists in waiting for some disaster to overtake them or the world

You offer emptiness and heartache and an endless search for pleasure with which to fill the emptiness.

There is something infinitely better than happily ever after. There is happiness. Happiness is a living, dynamic thing, Eve, and has to be worked on every moment for the rest of our lives. It is a far more exciting prospect than that silly static idea of a happily ever after. Would you not agree?

having a dream and being on the journey to fulfilling it sometimes brings more happiness than actually achieving it. We have a habit, do we not, of thinking happiness is a future state if only this and that condition can be met. And so much of life passes us by without our realizing how happy we can be in this present moment, or how nearly happy.

openness and truth between partners were necessary if the marriage was to have a chance of bringing them any sort of happiness.

She was now eight-and-twenty, with no idea how to be happy except in brief moments, and no idea how to create happiness about her. She only knew how to retreat inward to avoid pain.

And what had happened to the friendship and the love? . . . They had seemed strong enough for a lifetime of happiness.

Good-bye, Henry, he said. You are young. You will forget this episode soon and be happy again as you were when I met you. I am sorry that I have saddened you, my love.

She could never make him happy. She had nothing of her real self to offer him.

He grinned suddenly and her heart somersaulted—he looked so very like that exuberant boy of her memories.

She raised her eyes to his. To the golden boy who had lit her world for a couple of months one springtime long ago—so little happiness to occupy the space of twenty-eight years.

Adaptamos nuestra vida a las circunstancias y cogemos la felicidad donde la encontramos, aun cuando sólo sea en momentos pasajeros. O hacemos eso o nos perdemos la oportunidad de aceptar la gracia en nuestra vida. Este es un momento feliz. Lo recordaré.

It was true that love had never done her much good. It had brought her very little happiness. A few weeks of courtship and two days of marriage did not provide enough happiness for a lifetime. There had been years of pain and emptiness. Perhaps a marriage based on affection and respect would prove more durable. Perhaps there would not be the peak of delirious joy that she had known with Robert. But there would not be the depths of despair, either.

She was beginning to feel a sense of release, a hope that happiness still lay ahead of her.

un destino que dispone un patrón para la vida de cada uno y nos da opciones, numerosas opciones, mediante las cuales encontrar nuestro patrón y ser feliz.

Let us enjoy it, he said, his eyes looking directly into hers. We are both in need of some good memories, I believe.

I could not possibly have imagined anything more wonderful if I had tried.

She remembered Robert as he had looked when the vicar had pronounced them married. The sun itself had seemed to be behind his smile as he had turned to her and kissed her lightly on the lips. It had seemed that they had conquered fate, that they were now safe forever.

They had not felt the absence of larger celebrations. They had wanted only each other. Their world had been complete.

And they had had two days together, forty-eight hours into which to cram a lifetime of happiness. No longer.

I could not possibly want anything more.

You cannot fail to enjoy yourself there and forget all your woes.