Quotes About Happiness

She was so happy that she had gone quiet all over. She felt like someone listening to great chords of music that were not to be interrupted by speaking. (p. 152)

She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface

She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface. Sometimes she would feel it there and not even know its source.

Go maire tu' I bhfad agus rath! 'Live long and prosper'.

And he laughed.

Done, he said, and laughed.

Joanna has an unmanageable lump in her throat and wonders why it's always the happy memories that make her cry.

Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.

But only when it was too late did they realize the price they must pay for escaping their destiny. Every Happy Ever After was tainted. Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.

He would go to the bakery for a cake, and somewhere in the shop-I had never discovered where; it was one of the few secrets I had not fathomed-he kept a candle, which came out on this day every year, was lit, and which I blew out, with as good an impression of happiness as I could muster. Then we ate the cake, with tea, and settled down to quiet digestion and cataloging.

That he had been lucky in life and had much to be thankful for. That the woman waiting for him at home in bed was a kind and loving soul. And more: his knees didn't hurt as much as usual, and there was an expansiveness in his chest that reminded him of how it had been to be young.

Pigs were funny creatures. You could almost think they were human the way they looked at you sometimes. Or was the pig remembering something? Yes, she realized, that was it. The pig looked exactly as if she were recollecting some happiness now lost, so that joy remembered was overlaid with present sorrow.

What's the value of happiness that can only come at the price of another person's despair?

No, but it is necessary so we can live. It is the people who do not know this, who think every day about the bad things in their life, who turn bitter and cruel. It is like they are already dead, they are so cold and filled with hate. Like the fundamentalists. So much hate," she said, shaking her head. "Faraz and I, we do not want to become like those people. We wish to be alive.

I think the day is as beautiful as you and I choose.

You always take sunshine with you. I don't suppose you know it, but everything brightens when people like you walk in

The free society does not guarantee virtue any more than it guarantees happiness. But it allows for the pursuit of both, a pursuit rendered all the more meaningful and profound because success is not guaranteed: it has to be won through personal striving.

But if we don't prefer things, then we increase our chances to be content.

I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?

Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.

I was so happy that I wanted to be kind to everyone in the world.

perhaps it is loving that counts, not the being loved in return- that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness.

The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return - that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness.

But the happiness you hoped to win for me will never be mine.