Quotes About Happiness

Sylvia kept writing to Louie, telling him of all they would do when he came home. "Darling, we will take the best of care for you," she wrote. "You shall be 'King Toots,'—anything your heart desires—(yes, even red heads and all).

Am I ever happy," he wrote to Louie. "I have to go around with my shirt open so that I have enough room for my chest." Louie

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

Home is the nicest word there is.

As you read my stories of long ago I hope you will remember that things truly worthwhile and that will give you happiness are the same now as they were then. It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.

The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.

A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.

Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.

When we think about fairy tales, we think about happily ever afters, forgetting the darkness that stories beginning with "once upon a time" so often contain. I tried to protect Shay from that darkness. But there was no way to shield her from the truth: Life is not a fairy tale.

Some pursue happiness, others create it. - Anonymous

Color, Light, Vibration, Joy— These things are woven by the Divine.

Make for the joy of making; Give for the joy of giving; Love for the joy of loving; Live for the joy of living.

the greatest unhappiness a person can feel in life is unmet expectations.

As far back as I can remember, whenever you used to look at me, your face would light up as if someone had lit a candle inside you.

Well, all's well that ends well, so they say," remarked Mr. Bobbsey,

Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.

sound silly, but I figured out that being happy made me happier than being unhappy ever did." Tess replayed these words in

Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child." Sunny

Everyone's unhappy if they have even a sliver of intelligence. Who can be happy in this world?

Whenever I got cross with him, I would think about that girl at the bus stop, how unhappy she was, how she thought no one could ever want to take her on a date, much less love her. It may sound silly, but I figured out that being happy made me happier than being unhappy ever did.

I'd come home but nearly everybody does. It's the ones that don't go home that I feel sorry for, they're not happy.

And I didn't even try to fight the smile returning to my face, as I realized in that moment that I would eat a million pepperoni pizzas for that girl. And she knew. Damn it.

Living well is the best revenge (Margot Radcliffe)

She wondered when her daughter would realise that for the most part, people weren't that different. Young and old, male or female, pretty much everyone she knew wanted the same things: The wanted to feel peace in their hearts, they wanted a life without turmoil, they wanted to be happy. The difference, she thought, was that most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future. While most older people believed that they lay in the past.