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Quotes About Happiness

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
~ H. L. Mencken
AS I CRAWLED INTO bed and put my arm around Helen it occurred to me, not for the first time, that there are few pleasures in this world to compare with snuggling up to a nice woman when you are half frozen.
~ James Herriot
Maybe ye don't know it, Mr. Herriot, but this is the best time of your life.' 'Do you think so?' 'Aye, there's no doubt about it. When your children are young and growin' up around ye—that's when it's best. It's the same for everybody, only a lot o' folk don't know it and a lot find out when it's too late. It doesn't last long, you know.
~ James Herriot
a realisation of my blessings began to return when I slid into bed and Helen, instead of shrinking away from me as it would have been natural to do, deliberately draped her feet and legs over the human ice block that was her husband. The bliss was unbelievable. It was worth getting out just to come back to this.
~ James Herriot
My friend, it is not an arduous task that I bequeath, for our order knows only silken bonds. To be gentle and patient, to care for the riches of the mind, to preside in wisdom and secrecy while the storm rages without — it will all be very pleasantly simple for you, and you will doubtless find great happiness.
~ James Hilton
He had suddenly come to realize a single facet of the promised jewel; he had Time, Time for everything that he wished to happen, such Time that desire itself was quenched in the certainty of fulfillment.
~ James Hilton
Their lack of interest is part of their lack of worry over the future, which is a natural thing—and in 1917 a good thing, too. For then at Brookfield there were boys who were to die within a year; and they were quite happy, playing rugger and conjugating verbs and reading the War news, only half aware that the last concerned them any more than the second, or as much as the first.
~ James Hilton
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I would tell you: I am here to live like I've got nothing to do today but enjoy the ride.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Real happiness is homemade.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Generally speaking, "I'd rather be happy than right any day.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
I'ts the simple pleasure of knowing, I am in love with you.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Without pain, how could you know joy?' You can't feel real joy unless you've felt heartache.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
I feel calm around you, as if the sun is smiling down on me and the world has suddenly become a sweet, safe place to be. I feel good about life?about myself. And it's hard not to want to be near someone who, just by their very nature, makes you feel that way.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Think about every good thing in your life right now. Free yourself of worrying. And enjoy your life—it's all that matters.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
I myself prefer to laugh, Because there is less cleaning do to do afterwards.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
I myself prefer to laugh, Because there is less cleaning to do afterwards.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
No words needed, "Because..... "Your smile is what gets me through the day
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Sometime I ride for passion and sometime because I am happy and sometime because I am in another world
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Happiness. Is to precious to be ashamed of." For it is the place where passion intertwines with the heart.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
live your life the most joyful way possible every day." It's what makes the ride worthwhile.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Don't love the person who looks beautiful. Love the person who makes your life beautiful.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Live your life, do your thing. not with expectations. But for the joy of it.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
You want to be happy? "The trick is... "When you take out the trash, don't go digging back through it.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
You think that you are worthless. And not sure you deserve to be loved at all." "At what point do you decide enough is enough and fight for your own happiness."?
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)