Quotes About Happiness

A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.

A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.

En el cielo de las armonías todas las fijezas eran movimientos y todas las felicidades nacían de la perdición. Sólo el que se perdía se encontraba.

Le bonheur que je ressens lorsque je savoure le repos et la sérénité de cet endroit [le Spielweg, dans la Forêt-Noire, vallée du « Münstertal »], se retrouve dans les dessins que j'ai souhaité vous présenter dans ce livre.

No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.

If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.

How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.

It had been the longest time since she had had a rib-scraping laugh. She had forgotten how deep and down it could be. So different from the miscellaneous giggles and smiles she had learned to be content with these past few years.

They laughed too, even Rose Dear shook her head and smiled, and suddenly the world was right side up. Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complicated, more serious than tears.

When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?

Seeing her step so easily from the pantry and emerge looking precisely as she did when she entered, only happier, taught Sula that sex was pleasant and frequent, but otherwise unremarkable.

Apparently he thought he deserved only to be loved--from a distance, though--and given what he wanted. And in return he would be . . . what? Pleasant? Generous? Maybe all he was really saying was: I am not responsible for your pain; share your happiness with me but not your unhappiness.

she tackled the problem of trying to decide how she wanted to live and what was valuable to her. When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?

Dear God... I, I have caused a miracle. I gave her the eyes. I gave her the blue, blue, two blue eyes. Cobalt blue. A streak of it right out of your own blue heaven. No one else will see her blue eyes. But she will. And she will live happily ever after.

she tackled the problem of trying to decide how she wanted to live and what was valuable to her. When am I happy and when am I sad and what us the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?

I was happy, free in a way I had never been, ever. It was the oddest sensation. Not ecstasy, not satisfaction, not a surfeit of pleasure or accomplishment. It was a purer delight, a rogue anticipation with certainty.

No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you. How loose the silk. How fine and loose and free. DENVER'S SECRETS were sweet.

to eat, walk and sleep anywhere was life as good as it got.

songs of unreasonable joy.

fingers into his socks, looking up the inside back of his coat. If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.

I did not want to feel anything that did not originate with me. Because the big deal, as they described it, was that it made you feel so good. I did not want to feel something that was dependent on it. I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.

Good stretched her pleasure.

Booker's smile traveled from his lips to his eyes. The joy in his face was infantile.

A woman could be cobra-thin and starving, but if she had grapefruit boobs and raccoon eyes, she was deliriously happy.