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Quotes About Happiness

Membaca, berpikir, mencintai dan berdoa, hal-hal inilah yang membuat orang berbahagia.
~ John Ruskin
There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration.
~ John Ruskin
You can be happy anywhere, if you have the right point of view. And the ability to ignore the smell of an entire planet.
~ John Scalzi
I don't discount that in the end, everything I do, say, write and am will amount to a whole lot of not much; I just don't think it's a relevant metric. The relevant metric is: Have I constructed a life that gives me happiness, allows me to give happiness, and allows for this life to have meaning within its admittedly limited context? If I am succeeding in this particular metric, I think I'm doing pretty well.
~ John Scalzi
some of your writer friends will do better than you, by whatever standard you decide "better" counts as. And you know what you should do? Be happy for them, you neurotic twit.
~ John Scalzi
I could be happy never talking about tiny skin mites ever again," I said. "They come out when you sleep, you know." "I do now, thanks for that.
~ John Scalzi
Charlie's Homecoming
~ John Scalzi
No, no, I'm just fucking with you. They all lived happily ever after. Seriously.
~ John Scalzi
Samantha smiles again and puts her arm around Nick as they walk.
~ John Scalzi
I wondered then why children played so in the river, but adults ceased to see it with the same eyes. Why couldn't we embrace such simple joys?
~ John Shors
I'll treasure every day that I have with you. For I've known what life was like before you and..and since you, and as far as I'm concerned, these are two different lives. And one makes me so very much happier that the other.
~ John Shors
I used to be rather like you,' the doctor said vaguely, looking somewhat bored, ' All misery is invented.' After a moment he turned back to Boris and smiled. Happiness, too, I daresay.
~ Unknown
A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.
~ John Steinbeck
And her joy was nearly like sorrow.
~ John Steinbeck
Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled.
~ John Steinbeck
If you are in love — that's a good thing — that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don't let anyone make it small or light to you. […] If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
~ John Steinbeck
Maybe everyone is too rich. I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house, and he will die of despair.
~ John Steinbeck
Financial bitterness could not eat too deeply into Mack and the boys, for they were not mercantile men. They did not measure their joy in goods sold, their egos in bank balances, nor their loves in what they cost.
~ John Steinbeck
Money's easy to make if it's money you want. But with few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.
~ John Steinbeck
They taught us a toast in Ukranian which we like: 'Let us drink to make people at home happy.' And they toasted again to peace, always to peace. Both of these men had been soldiers, and both of them had been wounded, and they drank to peace.
~ John Steinbeck
to the race in general, alcohol as been an anodyne, a warmer of the soul, a strengthener of muscle and spirit. It has given courage to cowards and has made very ugly people attractive. There is a story told of a Swedish tramp, sitting in a ditch on Midsummer Night. He was ragged and dirty and drunk, and he said to himself softly and in wonder, I am rich and happy and perhaps a little beautiful.
~ John Steinbeck
The news came early to the beggars in front of the church, and it made them giggle a little with pleasure, for they knew that there is no Almsgiver in the world like a poor man who is suddenly lucky.
~ John Steinbeck
I'm glad there's love here. That's all.
~ John Steinbeck
And the women who had thought they wanted dresses never realized that what they had wanted was happiness.
~ John Steinbeck