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Quotes About Happiness

I wonder if it's possible to have happiness without it being at someone else's expense.
~ David Levithan
because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.
~ David Levithan
I'm not a very happy person, I told him.But sometimes I can trick myself into thinking I am.
~ David Levithan
When it comes to true dance, it's not about how you look, it's all about the joy you feel.
~ David Levithan
Laughter rarely lasts longer than a few seconds, it's true. But how enjoyable those few seconds are.
~ David Levithan
You are happy even if you are afraid to admit it.
~ David Levithan
All sorts of yayness floods my brain. Love is such a drug.
~ David Levithan
The tenderness between two people can turn the air tender, the room tender, time itself tender. As I step out of bed and slip on an oversize shirt, everything around me feels like it's the temperature of happiness.
~ David Levithan
I am having a fucking great time, and the amazing thing is that I realize it even as it's happening.
~ David Levithan
There is no word for our kind of friendship. Two people who don't see each other a lot, but can make each other effortlessly happy
~ David Levithan
The thing about champagne,you say, unfoiling the cork, unwinding the wire restraint, is that is the ultimate associative object. Every time you open a bottle of champagne, it's a celebration, so there's no better way of starting a celebration than opening a bottle of champagne. Every time you sip it, you're sipping from all those other celebrations. The joy accumulates over time.
~ David Levithan
Our moments are music, and sometimes – just sometimes – we can catch them and put them into some lasting form. If we didn't have music, I don't think we could ever be truly happy, and if we didn't have special moments, we would never find music.
~ David Levithan
She transforms once again into someone carefree, and I transform into someone whose only care is her.
~ David Levithan
I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else. I wonder if it's possible to have happiness without it being at someone else's expense
~ David Levithan
That word again. Happy. It's a curse. The pursuit of happiness makes us deeply unhappy. It's a trap.Before anything else happened, there was me in bed, thinking of who you used to be. I don't want you to think I forgot.
~ David Levithan
Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.
~ David Levithan
It's okay," I tell her. "It is okay to be happy
~ David Levithan
No matter how happy we are, no matter how much we want our night to stretch out infinitely, sleep is inevitable.
~ David Levithan
exemplar, n. It's always something we have to negotiate- the face that my parents are happy, and yours have never been. I have something to live up to, and if I fail, I still have a family to welcome me home. You have a storyline to rewrite, and a lack of faith that it can ever be done. You love my parents, I know. But you never get too close. You never truly believe there aren't bad secrets underneath.
~ David Levithan
He's not doing it to hurt me. I have to believe that. He's doing it to make himself happy which just happens to hurt me.
~ David Levithan
Doubt is an acceptable risk for happiness.
~ David Levithan
As long as we can conjure, who needs anything else? As long as we can agree on the magical lie and be happy, what more is there to ask for? "I loved you from that moment on," I say. "I loved you from that moment on," you agree.
~ David Levithan
It was a laugh that came from the tip of his toes, gaining force and soul as it traveled through his body and out into the world in mirthful bursts. There wasn't anything fake about it; it was an amusement park of a laugh, and when it appeared, you wanted to jump on board.
~ David Levithan
Don't underestimate the gift of someone who smiles every time they see you.
~ David Levithan