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Quotes About Happiness

Seven years ago we all went through the flames; and the happiness of some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured...
~ Bram Stoker
La risa) es una reina que viene y va. No le pregunta a nadie, no elige los momentos adecuados (...), la Reina Risa viene a mi y me grita al oído: ¡Aquí estoy! ¡Aquí estoy!, hasta que la sangre regresa y trae a mis mejillas un poco de la luz del sol que siempre lleva consigo.
~ Bram Stoker
Oh, friend John, it is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes and troubles, and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play.
~ Bram Stoker
If that other fellow doesn't know his happiness, well, he'd better look for it soon, or he'll have to deal with me. Little girl, your honesty and pluck have made me a friend, and that's rarer than a lover, it's more selfish anyhow.
~ Bram Stoker
In short they felt that they should like to have the pleasure of looking at Lady Pole again, and so they told Sir Walter - rather than asked him - that he missed his wife. He replied that he did not. But this was not allowed to be possible; it was well known that newly married gentlemen were never happy apart from their wives; the briefest of absences could depress a new husband's spirits and interfere with his digestion.
~ Susanna Clarke
A well-informed mind, nice manners and a gentle nature - all of these are much more likely to contribute to a husband's happiness than mere transient beauty.
~ Susanna Clarke
He has a most charming smile when he remembers to use it.
~ Susanna Clarke
She had the sweetest way of saying my name and smiling at the same time, and every time she did so, my heart turned over.
~ Susanna Clarke
Today it stopped raining. The World became light of Heart again.
~ Susanna Clarke
Brilliant! Thank you! But what I value even more than the shoes themselves is the proof they give of our friendship! I consider the possession of such a friend as you to be one of the greatest happinesses of my Life!
~ Susanna Clarke
The very basis of true peace of mind is a benevolent wish to see all the world as happy as one's Self; and from my soul do I pity the selfish churl, who, remembering the little bickerings of anger, envy, and fifty other disagreeables to which frail mortality is subject, would wish to revenge the affront which pride whispers him he has received.
~ Susanna Rowson
la felicidad siempre tiene un objeto, somo felices por algo,es un sentimiento cuya existencia depende del exterior. La alegría, en cambio, no tiene objeto. Te posee sin ningún motivo aparente, en su esencia se parece al sol: arde gracias a la combustión de su propio corazón.
~ Susanna Tamaro
Vsako srce nosi v svojem najskrivnejšem koti?ku drobtinico vednosti- spominja se kraja, trenutka v katerem je bilo sre?no, in po tistem kraju se mu toži, tja se želi vrniti.
~ Susanna Tamaro
Mutsuzluk genel olarak disi cizgiyi izler.Bazi kalitsal anomaliler gibi anadan kiz evlada gecer.Gecerken de zayiflayacagina daha yogun,daha kalici ve derin olur.
~ Susanna Tamaro
They feel life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks if I ever decide to have my soul surgically removed.
~ Suzanne Finnamore
Someday I will have revenge. I know in advance to keep this to myself, and everyone will be happier. I do understand that I am expected to forgive N and his girlfriend in a timely fashion, and move on to a life of vegetarian cooking and difficult yoga positions and self-realization, and make this so much easier and more pleasant for all concerned.
~ Suzanne Finnamore
All musical people seem to be happy. It is the engrossing pursuit, — almost the only innocent and unpunished passion.
~ Sydney Smith
Heir to your own karma doesn't mean 'You get what you deserve.' I think it means 'You get what you get.' Bad things happen to good people. My happiness depending on my action means, to me, that it depends on my action of choosing compassion--for myself as well as for everyone else--rather than contention. [p.61]
~ Sylvia Boorstein
I don't need anything else. I get out of bed every morning and face the world because you're in it.
~ Sylvia Day
Waking up to you is like... presents on Christmas morning. His mouth curved. For your convenience, I'm already unwrapped. Batteries not required.
~ Sylvia Day
Contentment and happiness didn't exist in my life for more than a few moments at a time, and they were really only illusionary. There was always something hidden. Lying in wait to spring up and ruin everything.
~ Sylvia Day
We were together because we were addicted to each other. I was never as intoxicated as I was when we were happy together, and I knew it was the same for him. We were putting ourselves through the wringer for those moments of perfection between us, but they were so tenuous that only our stubbornness, determination and love kept us fighting for them.
~ Sylvia Day
I've died and gone to heaven
~ Sylvia Day
You've got to have as many good times as bad, or it all becomes too painful and too much work.
~ Sylvia Day