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Quotes About Happiness

think that every one, no matter how many troubles he may have when he grows up, ought to have a happy childhood to look back upon.
~ Jean Webster
I think that every one , no matter how many troubles the may have when he grows up, ought to have a happy childhood to look back upon. And if I ever have any children of my own, no matter how unhappy I may be, I am not going to let them have any cares until they grow up.
~ Jean Webster
One does not miss what one has never had.
~ Jean Webster
It seemed like an unachievable goal for one person to bring sunshine to one hundred little faces when what they need is a mother apiece.
~ Jean Webster
It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones—I've
~ Jean Webster
I think that everyone, no matter how many troubles he may have when he grows up, ought to have a happy childhood to look back upon. And if I ever have any children of my own, no matter how unhappy I may be, I am not going to let them have any cares until they grow up.
~ Jean Webster
These are the happiest girls I ever saw—and I am the happiest of all!
~ Jean Webster
The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way. The whole secret is in being pliable .
~ Jean Webster
It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now. Not to be for ever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant.
~ Jean Webster
Oh, I'm developing a beautiful character! It droops a bit under cold and frost, but it does grow fast when the sun shines. That's the way with everybody. I don't agree with the theory that adversity and sorrow and disappointment develop moral strength. The happy people are the ones who are bubbling over with kindliness.
~ Jean Webster
It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.
~ Jean Webster
The end of human creatures is union with God; and in this their happiness consists.
~ Jean-Baptiste Chautard
Alain Veynerdi zafer kazanm?? bir komutan edas?yla Anna'ya bakt?. O an hayat?n?n en mutlu an? olmal?yd?: –Han?mefendi, bundan önceki hayat?n?zda siz bir Türk'tünüz.
~ Jean-Christophe Grangé
Les événements disposent de nous pour presque tout. Les rares fois où il nous revient de décider librement, nous n'avons pas le droit de vouloir autre chose que le bonheur.
~ Jean-Christophe Rufin
À ce moment-là, je crois, j'ai pris conscience qu'aucune existence, si heureuse ou brillante fût-elle, ne me suffirait jamais. Il vient toujours un moment où le rêveur, qui d'ordinaire se croit heureux parce que ses songes l'emportent sans cesse ailleurs, prend conscience de son malheur.
~ Jean-Christophe Rufin
Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child crying himself to sleep. Capturing the moment, these small slices of life, these small gusts of happiness, move me more deeply than the rest.
~ Jean-Dominique Bauby
You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
One can enjoy existence, not life.
~ Jean-Luc Godard
irresistible Geiger grin broke out.
~ Jeanne Birdsall
Tooth, I guess.
~ Jeanne Birdsall
Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life.
~ Jeanne Calment
Maybe there was no happily ever after [...] but there was happiness sometimes and she had it now, doing what she knew she was born for.
~ Jeanne DuPrau