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Quotes About Happiness

Oh my dear, dear Stephen, how can I ever repay you for such unselfishness? But the happiness you hoped to win for me will never be mine.
~ Dodie Smith
What I'd really hate would be the settled feeling, with nothing but happiness to look forward to.
~ Dodie Smith
Is it wrong for me to feel so happy? Perhaps I ought even to feel guilty? No. I didn't make it happen, and it can't hurt anyone but me. Surely I have a right to my joy. For as long as it lasts...
~ Dodie Smith
me daba la sensación de que alguien tan destrozado como yo debía recibir ayuda de la Iglesia. A continuación dije para mis adentros que, como no pensaba en la Iglesia cuando era feliz, difícilmente podía esperar algo cuando no lo era. No se puede cobrar el seguro sin abonar las cuotas.
~ Dodie Smith
Then I told myself that as I never gave the Church a thought when I was feeling happy, I could hardly expect it to do anything for me when I wasn't. You can't get insurance money without paying in premiums.
~ Dodie Smith
extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.
~ Dodie Smith
so dimly, so gradually, as I wandered along, that only when my home at last lay before me did I cry: 'Now I know why I have been happy!' How words weave spells! As I wrote of the avenue, it rose before my eyes – I can see it now, lined with great smooth-trunked trees whose branches meet far above me. The still air is flooded with peace, yet somehow expectant – as it seemed to me once when I was in King's Crypt cathedral
~ Dodie Smith
I feel quite unreasonably happy this minute, watching them both; knowing I can go and join them in the warmth, yet staying here in the cold.
~ Dodie Smith
I think it worthy of note that I never felt happier in my life - despite sorrow for Father, pity for Rose, embarrassment about Stephen's poetry and no justification for hope as regards our family's general outlook. Perhaps it is because I have satisfied my creative urge; or it may be due to the thought of eggs for tea.
~ Dodie Smith
perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return - that perhaps true loving can never know any thing but happiness.
~ Dodie Smith
Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known.
~ Dodie Smith
You need to do a few things. For one make your life about you and not him. You need to also either accept whatever excuse he gave you and move on or leave him. Don't be one of those women that's always crying about their cheating man yet and still, they are laying down to his ass every night. Take control over your relationship and your life. It's not a hard thing to do and find happiness in yourself
~ Unknown
The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.
~ Don DeLillo
The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails. It can never be the cruel happy place we want to make it.
~ Don DeLillo
Sounds like a boring life. I hope it lasts forever, she said.
~ Don DeLillo
You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool.
~ Don DeLillo
I think pleasure is in the moment more than in the thing.
~ Don DeLillo
He said, The word for moonlight is moonlight. This made her happy. It was logically complex and oddly moving and circularly beautiful and true - or maybe not so circular but straight as straight can be.
~ Don DeLillo
we are fragile creatures surrounded by a world of hostile facts. Facts threaten our happiness and security. The deeper we delve into the nature of things, the looser our structure may seem to become.
~ Don DeLillo
People seemed to depend on his cheerfulness. The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.
~ Don DeLillo
We are fragile creatures surrounded by a world of hostile facts. Facts threaten our happiness and security. The deeper we delve into things, the looser our structure may seem to become.
~ Unknown
What well being in a barefoot piss after a strenuous and proper screw.
~ Unknown
I am never so happy aswhen I am broke, and lately I have been happy all the time. - Mehitabel the Cat
~ Don Marquis
They pay me to play my drums and I love it!
~ Don Meredith