Quotes About Happiness

Exuberance and joy, however, basically have nothing to do with time or age.

Frances was, by nature, an organizer. She wanted to believe that happiness could be arranged. Well, perhaps it could.

Seeing him somewhere was always a pleasure, like taking a drink of water.

She didn't relate this memory to Janet, but she did think right then that all golden ages are discovered within. No one would ever know that her father, Carl, the endless Iowa horizon, a pan of shortbread emerging from the oven, and her grandchildren laughing in the next room had indeed made her life a golden age.

What do you think makes you start laughing and unable to stop?

In those days all stories ended with the wedding.

Les he dado a mis hijos los dos regalos más crueles: la experiencia de una felicidad familiar perfecta y la absoluta certeza de que tarde o temprano se acaba.

I had come to the very edge of a moment, the moment when it might have been possible to remove the cloak of fear that had protected me all those years. But after all was said and done, the flesh beneath was too white and weak to be exposed. Is there really any one among you who in the face of such grief would not panic at the approach of happiness?

Once Once, oh once, there was, was not, A girl, princess, mermaid, widow, witch, queen, wife, A boy, king, soldier, wizard, troll, giants, Magic Life. The tale turns, returns, confuses, confesses, And all the hardships, spells, and stresses, End well in happy laughter And we hope- ever after. Believe me, friend- because would I, A storyteller, ever lie?

Lady Catherine quoting Lizzie Bennet: She had the impudence to reply that, whilst these would be heavy misfortunes, your wife must have such extraordinary sources of happiness necessarily attached to her situation, that she could, upon the whole, have no cause to repine.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is love. (Sophocles) by Adam Harford, Duke of Harford, from the last page of Sophie's Salvation

There were so many other things that he could add, that he doubted whether life without her offered him any pleasure at all, that he had hoped to recreate the happiness that had existed between his own parents in his union with her.

Calories don't count if they're connected to a celbration. Everyone knows this.

Once again, the key to true happiness is lowered expectations.

He smiled when he saw me . . . and it was the nice smile that included his eyes.

I'm done with men. I have a hamster. That's all I need.

Ranger slung an arm around me and hugged me into him, and I could feel him laughing.

Finally, a sport I could enjoy.

Ramos drank a shot, then he lit up and dragged the smoke deep into his lungs. 'Ahh, he said on the exhale. Sometimes I envy people who smoke. They always look so happy when they suck in that first lungful of tar. I can't think of many things that make me that happy. Maybe birthday cake.

key to true happiness is lowered expectations.

Sometimes I envy people who smoke. They always look so happy when they suck in that first lungful of tar. I can't think of many things that make me that happy. Maybe birthday cake.

He rushed to the dish, crammed everything into his cheeks, and rushed back to his soup can, where he hunkered in butt side out, vibrating with happiness and good fortune. That's the neat part about a hamster. It doesn't take much to make a hamster happy.

Lula got into line, and I relaxed in Ranger's Mercedes. Vlatko was out of the picture. Ranger was safe. I was wearing my own underwear. Life was good.

I figure happiness is a choice that you make.