Quotes About Happiness

Pink clouds of plum blossoms and their magnificent aroma languished in their wake, leaving a snow-drift of petals stuck to the windshield. They look like dead butterflies, she said, with a touch of sadness, and turned on the radio so she wouldn't start crying, so she could run away from there, escape from that burst of happiness into the bewitched halo of the bolero.

I wish we could live in this moment, right here, right now, and live in it forever

Don't let resentment and bitterness rob you of happiness. - Mr. Morrison, Humane Society volunteer

A "healthy" woman had children; a "happy" and "fulfilled" woman was a mother.

What I got was not so much gifts and whishes come trues but a feeling of peace. I got peace itself, actually. And when you have peace, you can be strong; and when you are strong, you can get through what you have to get through, and not with exhaustion and frown marks and slumped shoulders but with relative happiness, and humor, and sometimes even gaiety.

Enjoy life, it's ungrateful not to," said Ronald Reagan.

He smiled, which was not at all what she'd expected. It wasn't just a polite smile, either. It was the kind that made her want to sit on the front-porch swing, if she'd had a swing, and hum romantic songs from the thirties, those terrific old songs that talked about red sails in the sunset and the glory of love.

To love and be loved is a wonder.

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

The more difficult the VICTORY, The Greater the Happiness in WINING

There isn't one kind of happiness, there's all kinds. Decision is torment for anyone with imagination. When you decide, you multiply the things you might have done and now never can.

Tilda cared nothing for the future, and had, as a result, a great capacity for happiness.

I don't know who I am, I don't know what I'm like, how can I know what I want? I only know that whether I'm good or bad, whether I'm a bitch or not, whether I'm strong or weak or contemptible or a bloody martyr - I mean whether I'm fat or thin, tall or short, because I don't know - I want to be happy.

Can't you see? Before you knew the truth, we were happy. What's the god in ferreting out the truth all that time? It's always unpleasant." "Is it only lies that are Pleasant?" "Usually. That's why people tell them. To make life bearable.

I don't think anything gives your life joy and meaning. I think your life simply has joy and meaning. The love for my children, the love for my parents and the love for my friends is the end in itself. The meaning is life.

Oh, other people's happiness, especially when it is ill-won, is hard to bear when you are unhappy yourself,' he said. 'I should know.

And not telling anyone anything whenever possible is the secret of a happy marriage, in my experience.

eating chocolates, or lying in the sun; it was soothing, warming, totally pleasing.

Sylvia enjoyed her Christmas Day with Gwan and her family;

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood, but because I know they're just sitting there, thinking up ways to get even.

The soul's joy lies in doing.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim

How long do you mean to be content?

Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert.