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Quotes About Happiness

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to haunt for happiness
~ William Ewart Gladstone
If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
~ William Faulkner
I love, I will accept no substitute; ...; if happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
~ William Faulkner
I dont know if a little music aint about the nicest thing a fellow can have.
~ William Faulkner
La simple idea de su defección le produjo cierto regocijo, como el de un niño que decide hacer novillos.
~ William Faulkner
El dinero no vale nada; lo que te compras sí.
~ William Faulkner
Die Dinge, auf die es im Leben wirklich ankommt, kann man nicht kaufen.
~ William Faulkner
TRINA: I'm tired of all the happy men who rule the world. Their smile, their smile's their pedigree. They smile, but not for me. I'd like the chance to hide In their world. I'm happy, but I'm not at ease with that whole world.
~ William Finn
I had this vague idea that I could be completely happy as an idler, even a beggar, around the water.
~ William Finnegan
There was a joy of life in him and a kind of tenderness untainted by the merely gentle." When I read that line, written by James Salter, many years later, I thought of Glenn.
~ William Finnegan
Yes, did you hear what that woman said? . . . I think it's the artist is the only person who is really given the capability of being happy, maybe not all the time, but sometimes. Don't you think so? Don't you think so? . . .
~ William Gaddis
Nothing before the 2020s has ever seemed entirely real, to me. Hard to imagine they weren't constantly happy, given all they still had. Tigers, for instance.
~ William Gibson
Where, it comes to her, she was sometimes happy, in the sense of being somehow complete, and ready for what another day might bring. And knows she is no longer that, and that while she was, she scarcely knew it.
~ William Gibson
She was sometimes happy, in the sense of being somehow complete, and ready for what another day might bring. And knows she is no longer that, and that while she was, she scarcely knew it.
~ William Gibson
Let me think in pictures again. If I imagine heaven metaphorically dazzled into colours, the pure white light spread out in a cascade richer than a peacock's tail then I see that one of the colours lay over me. I was innocent of guilt, unconscious of innocence; happy, therefore, and unconscious of happiness. Perhaps the full sheaf of colours is never to be experienced by the human being since if they experience these colours they must lie in the past or on someone else.
~ William Golding
He was so delighted he stood on his head. And this is one of the ways small boys show they're delighted, they stand on their head and waggle their feet in the air.
~ William Golding
She loves you, the Prince cried. She loves you still and you love her, so think of that--think of this too: in all this world, you might have been happy, genuinely happy. Not one couple in a century has that chance, not really, no matter what the storybooks say, but you could have had it, and so, I would think, no one will ever suffer a loss as great as you.
~ William Goldman
Mawwage. Mawwage is what bwings us together today.
~ William Goldman
i have come to terms with my life, and that is my affair - i am not cold, i swear, but i have decided certain things, it is best for me to ignore emotion; i have not been happy dealing with it.
~ William Goldman
The wrong people die, some of them, and the reason is this: life is not fair. Forget all the garbage your parents put out. Remember Morgenstern. You'll be a lot happier.
~ William Goldman
God grant you your quota of smiles.
~ William Goldman
Morgenstern has never given them an easy shot at happiness. This time I sure hope he lets them get there.
~ William Goldman
He was actually quite happy, because it was only when he was requested to use his might that he felt he wasn't a bother to everybody.
~ William Goldman
Love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.
~ William Goldman