Quotes About Happiness

She looks incandescent with joy, his attention the light in which her beauty shines especially bright.

It will not end well,' Madoc says. 'But I will not stand in front of your happiness. I will not even stand in front of misery that you choose for yourself.

Legends need not concern themselves with something as small as happiness.

Were you a happy child?' 'I was magic. How could I fail to be?

What happiness do you have? Rutting and breeding. You'd go mad if you accepted the truth of what you are. You are nothing. You barely exist at all. Your only purpose is to create more of your kind before you die some pointless and agonizing death.

I was never going to be happy with you," Mom told him. "Your world isn't for people like me." The tall man regarded her for a long moment. "You made vows," he said finally. She lifted her chin. "And then I renounced them.

The whole places looks straight out of a fairy tale, the kind where love is a simple thing, never the cause of pain.

Normal people," they'd say with a shudder. "Normal people think they're happy, but that because they're too dumb to know any different. Better to be miserable and interesting, right, kiddo?

True, he doesn't make you cry. Question is, does he make you laugh?

Your dad used to say that our problems disappear when we laugh and I think he was right. They do, even if only for those few minutes while we are laughing.

Write with joy

We think of our emotions as being the result of something happening to us, but happiness is a choice.

He told me I could live in a corner of the world, like I was doing now, and think I was happy, or I could live in the whole world and know where I belonged," Peter said.

Unquenchable laughter arose among the blessed gods.

All happiness lasts but a moment, and the time that follows is only good for remembering what we have lost. —Homero Aridjis, Persephone (Vintage, 1986)

Grief shared is half grief; Joy shared is double joy.

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

A mothers happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

Love in the abstract is not enough for a great man in poverty; he has need of its utmost devotion... She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride, and happiness are centered.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

All happiness depends on courage and work.

Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance