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Quotes About Happiness

there are times when words are so glad to be set free they laugh out loud and prance across their tablets and inside their scrolls.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Later, I lay awake listening to him sleep, the soft clouds of his breath filling the room. I couldn't close my eyes for happiness. It sprouted in me like a bright green shoot.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Egy embert boldoggá tenni – tudod, ez az, ami számít. Az emberekkel az a legnagyobb baj, hogy… – … hogy nem tudják, mi számít, és mi nem! – Én úgy mondanám, a baj az, hogy tudják, mi számít, és mégsem azt választják.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
She smiled and the skin wrinkled around her eyes in that way that makes a woman beautiful.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
She bent and put her arms around me. "Sarah darling, you've fought harder than I imagined, but you must give yourself over to your duty and your fate and make whatever happiness you can."O
~ Sue Monk Kidd
The greatest sorrow, said Dante, was to recall in misery the time when we were happy. The sadness of a lost happy time.
~ Suketu Mehta
There was no divorce in the DPRK, but in America the rate was more than 50 percent, and divorce let to crime and mental illness, according to him. So what happens when people are unhappy here after being married for a while? I asked. The student looked at me blankly. Still another student wanted to write about how McDonald's was horrible. The same student then asked me, So what kind of food does McDonald's make?
~ Suki Kim
La ira puede cambiar con el tiempo a alegría; el enojo puede ser reemplazado por el contento.
~ Sun Tzu
I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
~ Susan B. Anthony
Well, no one says you can be happy about everything, I said. I know I should be glad for you, Megan, but frankly I think you're crazy. And if Reverend Marshall is making you this way, I think he's evil. This life, this everyday existence, is the one gift we're given. To throw it away, to want to be dead, to me that's the sin.
~ Susan Beth Pfeffer
We're all alive. We're all healthy. These are the good times.
~ Susan Beth Pfeffer
You have to fight for happiness.
~ Susan Beth Pfeffer
So we each had a piece of chocolate for dessert. I'd almost forgotten how much I love chocolate, how there's something about it that makes life a little more wonderful.
~ Susan Beth Pfeffer
We're all alive. We're all health. These are the good times.
~ Susan Beth Pfeffer
Remember, childhood only lasts 10-12 years. There's a lot that has to be squeezed in to make for a lifetime of happy memories. ?
~ Susan Branch
So!, I thought, for the first time, there's more than one path to happiness! I likes that. I thought they were brave. I didn't want to be them, but I liked that they wanted to be them. It opened a world of possibilities in my mind, just the idea that every thing was much bigger than I thought.
~ Susan Branch
He was woken by music. It beckoned him, lilting and insistent; delicate music, played by delicate instruments that he could not identify, with one rippling, bell-like phrase running through it in a gold thread of delight. There was in this music so much of the deepest enchantment of all his dreams and imaginings that he woke smiling in pure happiness at the sound.
~ Susan Cooper
In a way," Great –Uncle Merry said. His eyes seemed dazed, unable to focus anywhere, but there was a twitching at the corners of his mouth. Somehow, without smiling, he looked happier than they had ever seen him look before. Jane thought, watching: it is a sad face usually, and that's why there is such a difference.
~ Susan Cooper
I dream endlessly, my minstrel,' he said. 'I live in my dreams - they are the only thing this emptiness has not touched. Oh sometimes they are black and dreadful, nightmares from the pit. ... But most of them are wonderful, full of happiness and lost joy, and delight in making and being. Without my dreams, I should have gone mad long ago.' 'Ah,' Gwion said wryly, 'that is true of many men in this world.
~ Susan Cooper
Kate summed it up: All my life, it's been going through my mind that I don't deserve to be happy. I think that's why I never got married . . . never had a good relationship . . . never allowed myself any real success. When Kate grew up, the physical abuse ended. But through self-loathing, the emotional abuse continued. Except that now, she had become her own abuser.
~ Susan Forward
If you were made to believe that your parents' feelings were your responsibility, you probably still believe that it's within your power to "make" them—and often everyone else—either happy or sad.
~ Susan Forward
According to Philippe Ariès, "the interdiction of death in order to preserve happiness was born in the United States around the beginning of the twentieth century.
~ Susan Gubar
It must be amazing to end each day consumed with something other than disappointment at yourself and the world.
~ Susan Juby
Marry me, Gracie. Marry me and let me take care of you. Let me love you and prove it each and every day.
~ Susan Mallery