Quotes About Happiness

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

Happiness is what you choose to remember.

You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you're afraid for the next moment, because it couldn't possibly be quite as good? That's what it felt like.

Everyone deserves a happy ending.

There are so many things I can't believe. That people deserve what they get, both bad and good. That one day I'll live in a world where people are judged by what they do instead of who they are. That happy endings don't have contingencies and conditions.

She shrugged. You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.

Princes don't come around everyday, and happy endings don't grow on trees

I think we deserve a happily-ever-after. If anyone ever did, it's us.

The Inuit say that the stars are holes in heaven. And every time we see the people we loved shining through, we know they're happy.

Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.

When she smiles, it feels like the first warm day of March-- after an eternity of snow, when you suddenly remember how summer feels on the backs of your bare calves & in the part of your hair.

You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.

what made you happy once might not make you happy now.

He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something that doesn't make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself these were one and the same.

If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?

People in the real world would kill for a happily ever after, and you're willing to just throw it away ? I look away from her. It's hardly a happily ever after when you wind up right at the beginning.

Love makes life a little brighter

the universe wants from us is two things: don't do any intentional harm to yourself or anyone else, and get happy.

Love isn't what you expect it to be. You imagine being drunk on happiness, but the truth is, you worry all the time. Is she ill? Hurt? Might she meet someone else? There's a moment when you realize that you've gotten everything you wished for. And right on its heels is the understanding that this means you have so much more to lose.

I would figure out, later, how to explain to my boss that, for me, Delia will never be a story, but a happy ending.

Sometimes, there's this expression on his face, as if he cannot quite believe he got so lucky. I'm not sure what he's seeing when he looks at me, but I want to be that girl.

Her mouth is always on the verge of a smile. It makes her look like there's always something amazing she needs to tell me, even when it's just hello.

You've seen those pictures of couples kissing in front of a Christmas tree, or clasping hands on their wedding day, or holding a newborn baby between them-a snapshot of joy. But what do you really know about them? Just that at the second the shutter clicked, they loved each other. You have no idea what trials came before, or after. You don't know if one of them cheated, if they grew apart, if a divorce loomed on the horizon. You simply see that in one static moment, they were happy.

When they laugh, it sounds like confetti.