Quotes About Happiness

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a daily basis.

Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read.

We don't have to convince the world that we're suffering to convince them that we're artists," Hart said, jabbing at Black Flag's angst-ridden style. "There are those that choose to take that course. There's nothing wrong with being happy.

I write it, you read it, we share the joy.

Perhaps Danish happiness is not really happiness at all, but something much more valuable and durable: contentedness, being satisfied with your lot, low-level needs being met, higher expectations being kept in check.

To achieve authentic, sustained happiness, above all else you need to be in charge of your life, to be in control of who you want to be, and be able to make the appropriate changes if you are not.

Proper, deep, enduring joy usually requires a remarkable facility for denial, something which the Danes have in spades.

Mirror sighed. I believe everyone deserves a happily ever after. But I think that happy endings don't just happen by accident- you can't wait for one. You have to make them happen.

Every golden age is as much a matter of disregard as of felicity.

The April night on which Sammy felt most aware of the luster of his existence - the moment when, for the first time in his life, he was fully conscious of his own happiness - was a night that he would never discuss with anyone at all.

Do you think they were ever happy? Definitely, I said. Definitely? For sure. She went crazy. His business failed. They couldn't have children of their own. He went to prison. HRT gave her cancer. I shot his brother in the eye and then married a man who cost him his business. When were they happy? In the cracks? I said. In the cracks. Yeah.

The city was new again, and newly dangerous, and I would walk the streets quickly, eyes averted from those of passersby, like a spy in the employ of lust and happiness, carrying the secret deep within me but always on the tip of my tongue.

He was glad to have been wakened, contemptuous as ever of the happiness to be found in dreams, displeased with himself for having fallen prey to it once again.

I had slipped into that familiar marijuana state which lies between happiness and utter panic, and my heart was pounding.

It's the kind of house you'd like to wake up in on Christmas morning.

When were they happy? In the cracks? I said. In the cracks.

Irv had rediscovered, as surprisingly few men do, that the secret to perfect male happiness is a well-equipped clubhouse.

Whatever made her happy made me happy—except the time she thought divorcing me would make her life happier. That didn't do much for me.

Bosch had always thought it wasn't a bad way to go—doing what you loved.

But the innocence of a child will bring you back and give you the shield of joy with which to protect yourself.

Happy is the man who finds refuge in himself.

que haber sido. Bosch tuvo que esforzarse para contener su ira. —Bonito cuento de hadas —dijo—. Salvo por la parte de la historia en que la princesa nunca se despierta y el verdadero asesino se queda tan ancho y todo el mundo vive feliz después. Siga contándose este cuento. Quizás algún día pueda vivir con él. Bosch lo agarró con fuerza del brazo y lo condujo hacia la abertura en el seto.

I learned in that couple of hours long crash course that I might as well enjoy life to the fullest before a bus ran me over.

What I want to say is that I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me & incredibly good. I want to say that - everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.