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Quotes About Happiness

I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.
~ William Shakespeare
twice I have lived forever in a smile
~ E.E. Cummings
I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!
~ Frank O'Hara
Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm and not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms.
~ Ding Ling
Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.
~ Raymond Carver
What did you think, that joy / was some slight thing?
~ Mark Doty
Memories are the height of poetry only when they are memories of happiness. When they graze wounds over which scars have formed they become an aching pain.
~ Ivan Goncharov
And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them like a pool water and reflection.
~ Irving Layton
It's important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that's all we have.
~ Kay Ryan
...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door.
~ Wallace Stevens
The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.
~ James Broughton
Im looking for a girl who's fun to be around.
~ Ross Lynch
I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.
~ Frances Mayes
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the springs of poetry is joy.
~ May Sarton
Kindness went out to play all on a summer's day. With her about many smiles came out and joined in sweet array.Sara Loo, "Mother Goose Move Over or you're gonna love poetry
~ Sara Loo
I wish for magic this season, laughter and fun.I wish for mistletoe kisses-those sparkly ones.
~ Cheri Bauer
Deb and I were married on a snowy night - wind cross-wove a veil of snow for her then threw confetti at us as we left the lighted church...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
There is no happiness like mine.I have been eating poetry.
~ Mark Strand
There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.
~ Glenn Frey
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The politics, I don't understand it, I'm not happy, don't feel good about it.
~ Neil Young