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Quotes About Happiness

I feel entirely content, sitting here with you.
~ Unknown
friends are the sunshine of life.
~ John Hay
Kolik malých Å¡tÄ›stí jsem ztratil hledáním velkého Å¡tÄ›stí.
~ John Henry Newman
I have very little," he said, and he spoke as if having little were the greatest fortune, and the greatest buffer against the future, that a man could wish.
~ John Hersey
This country is founded on some very noble ideals but also some very big lies. One is that everyone has a fair chance at success. Another is that rich people have to be smart and hardworking or else they wouldn't be rich. Another is that if you're not rich, don't worry about it, because rich people aren't really happy. I am the white male living proof that all of that is garbage.
~ John Hodgman
Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole.
~ John Irving
You know what I love... everything.
~ John Irving
Jack realized that when you're happy – especially when it's the first time in your life – you think of things that would never have occurred to you when you were unhappy.
~ John Irving
why Edward Bonshaw had been so attached to it? "A glooming peace this morning with it brings"—well, yes, and why would such darkness ever depart? Who can happily think of what else happened to Juliet and her Romeo, and not dwell on what happened to them at the end of their story?
~ John Irving
POKUD TI NA N??EM ZÁLEŽÍ, MUSÍÅ  SI TO CHRÁNIT; POKUD MÁÅ  TO Å TÄšSTÍ, ŽE JSI NAÅ EL ZPÅ®SOB ŽIVOTA, KTERÝ TI VYHOVUJE, MUSÍÅ  NAJÍT ODVAHU HO ŽÍT.
~ John Irving
At times, he admitted, he had been very happy in the apple business. He knew what Larch would have told him: that his happiness was not the point, or that it wasn't as important as his usefulness.
~ John Irving
I guess that's just one of the reasons it's the most beautiful bar in the world, in my opinion: it has the grace to make no one feel self-conscious about any unhappiness.
~ John Irving
HOW CAN YOU BE HAPPY IF YOU SPEND ALL YOUR TIME THINKING ABOUT DOING IT?" Owen asked.
~ John Irving
If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
~ John Irving
May you be spared such a moment of recognition as this—namely, the conviction that most of your happiness lies behind you, and the lion's share of your loneliness looms ahead.
~ John Irving
Were you happy when you heard the news, Grandpa?" "You can't believe how happy." "What did you do to celebrate?" "I started dancing and fell in a trench full of shit.
~ John Jakes
Among the strange things of this world, nothing seems more strange than that men pursuing happiness should knowingly quit the right and take a wrong road, and frequently do what their judgments neither approve nor prefer.
~ John Jay
We must go home to be happy, and our home is not in this world. Here we have nothing to do but our duty.
~ John Jay
Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
~ John Keats
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; It will never Pass into nothingness.
~ John Keats
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness,—- That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
~ John Keats
If I am destined to be happy with you here—how short is the longest Life—I wish to believe in immortality—I wish to live with you for ever.
~ John Keats
Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellowship with essence; till we shine, Full alchemiz'd, and free of space. Behold The clear religion of heaven!
~ John Keats
If I am destined to be happy with you here -- how short is the longest Life.
~ John Keats