Quotes About Happiness

I have to smile. He's such a dork. But I'm starting to realize the one good thing that's happened: he's my dork.

What kind of plan B?" Hale asked. He was almost holding his breath when a voice answered, "My kind." Macey tried to read the look on his face then, but it was gone in a flash. It had been a simple moment of peace and joy and pure happiness. That voice made Hale happy. It kept him calm. It was his backup and his conscience. Macey couldn't help herself, she envied him.

I sang because that is what I do when I am happy and when I'm sad. I sang because it is who I am when I am being the best possible version of me.

They were both totally laughing, and he was twirling her, and her hair was flying around like she was in a shampoo commercial. Seriously. She could have sold conditioner to a bald man the way she looked out there.

I smile. I lie.

But when Mr. Stein sipped his hot coffee and watched Kat drink hers, he smiled the way he might if he saw a replica of his favorite childhood toy in a shop window—happy that something he loved wasn't entirely gone from the world.

But when Mr. Stein sipped his hot coffee and watched Kat drink hers, he smiled the way he might if he saw a replica of his favorite childhood toy in a shop window—happy that something he loved wasn't entirely gone from the world.

We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.

There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.

Hay mucha gente que no es feliz nunca en su vida

Usted debe de ser muy feliz — le dije, sin pensar muy bien en el significado de las palabras que pronunciaba. — Pues no — y me pasó un brazo por el hombro, como si mi comentario la hubiera conmovido—. No soy muy feliz. ¿Por qué lo dices? — No sé, teniendo tantos libros... — moví las manos en el aire para ganar tiempo, mientras buscaba unas palabras que no logré encontrar—. Yo nunca he visto tantos juntos en mi vida.

No me dejó terminar la frase y así, el último beso de aquella noche me enseñó lo más importante. Que nada, ni los hielos del invierno, ni las borrascas del norte, ni el Patronato de Redención de Penas, ni Franco, ni lo que había hecho con España, ni siquiera ese Dios torpe y tullido que acababa de quedarse manco y ya no tenía fuerzas para apretar, para ahogarme a la vez entre sus dedos, iba a impedir que yo fuera feliz en Cuelgamuros

Los nervios de punta, la razón ausente y el gesto detenido en un reloj averiado, parado en una fecha feliz y remota. Aquella insensibilidad repentina, de ritmo lento y ademanes mecánicos, era el signo de otro amor, el amor del cuerpo, de la piel herida en la memoria de los besos que no se repetirían

Sólo existe una dicha más grande en la vida que enamorarse, y es enamorarse bien.

Los españoles, ya se sabe, nunca estamos preparados para ser felices

Pero hoy no han matado a nadie

No hace tanto tiempo, en este mismo barrio, la felicidad era también una manera de resistir.

Habíamos sido felices caminando sobre una cuerda floja, habíamos florecido en un infección de contradicciones, nos habíamos encontrado en un laberinto de paradojas sin mirar nunca al suelo, sin mirar nunca al cielo, sin mirar.

Sin embargo, con el tiempo comprendí que la alegría era un arma superior al odio, las sonrisas más útiles, más feroces que los gestos de rabia y desaliento

Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.