Quotes About Happiness

A pop song that's as substantial as a balloon, but lifts us up the same way when we sing it.

I still have that drawing. Whenever I look at it, it makes me happy. That's the moral of the story. That's it.

As I step out of bed and slip on an oversize shirt, everything around me feels like it's the temperature of happiness.

When the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it, because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.

a genuine, tee-hee-hee giggle...it's like he's being tickled by life

And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, was to make sure the things I didn't miss meant more to me than the things I missed.

If I didn't have music, I don't know if I could ever be truly happy, and if I didn't have these moments, I would never find music. It is everywhere, in the air between us, waiting to be sung.

It's always something we have to negotiate — the fact 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.

i can't help thinking that 'getting a life' is something only a complete idiot could believe. like you can just drive to a store and get a life. see it in its shiny box and look inside the plastic window and catch a glimpse of yourself in a new life and say, 'wow, i look much happier - i think this is the life i need to get!' take it to the counter, ring it up, put it on your credit card. if getting a life was that easy, we'd be one blissed-out race.

School is not like church. I know a lot of people in my school are happy about this, but I think that's because they've known the wrong kind of churches, the ones that hold back instead of lifting up.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking. What would you have them do?

crave, v.: Nothing makes me feel as welcome in the world as the sound of you laughing at a joke I've made.

So much happiness can only make me sad.

That is all I need to make a room full of happiness-two boys, one love, and a song.

Laughter rarely lasts longer than a few seconds, it's true. But how enjoyable those few seconds are.

buoyed not by thrill but by happiness.

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?

But as i've told him a million times, when it comes to true dancing, it doesn't matter what you look like-it's all about the joy you feel.

I will not let myself think that things are suddenly better. I will not let myself think that we've somehow escaped the us we always end up being. But at the same time, I will not deny what's happening. I will not deny this happiness. Because if happiness feels real, it almost doesn't matter if it's real or not.

Kids don't really get to hear their parents giggle enough if you ask me...

Most babies come into the world crying or gasping or snotting. Not Tiny Cooper. He comes into the world singing.

But have them tell us that every person needs to be with another person in order to be happy, and we nod along like it's the most obvious thing in the world. But there's no reason for it, is there? It's not a proven truth. It's just some thing that our culture has come to spin itself around, mostly so we'll procreate, and we're the dupes who fall for it over and over and over again.

Kids don't really hear their parents giggle enough if you ask me.

It's heaven, heaven, heaven when you When you find love and romance on the menu.