Quotes About Happiness

But it was a damn good smile. A genuine one, which is hard to come by these days." -Finch

Like everything else that doesn't last, today is gone now, but it was a pretty good day. The best I've had in months.

How could I ever feel anything but lucky that this girl likes me?

This is what I want to do with Violet - give her only the good, keep away the bad, so that good is all we ever have around us

I am crying-loud and hiccuping, as if I've been holding my breath for a very long time and finally, finally can breathe. You make me lovely, and it's so lovely to be lovely to the one I love...

And then … she had hardly looked beyond, but there was a great, summer-scented breeze blowing through her spirit, telling her she was young and fair, and wealthy into the bargain

Notice some of the beauty around you.Partake in joy. And when you get the choice to watch on the sidelines or to dance, get out there and dance- Lee Ann Womack

A SMILE TRANSLATES even over the phone, so before answering its ring, take a breath and smile.

You will not always be happy, my dear, however wise you are--I wasn't--but always take what comes to you--don't fight life, Camilla, accept it with grace...

Any time I'm happier with you drowned in the river, I belong in the Asylum.

Our problem is not that we desire happiness. No, our problem is that we continue to foolishly believe that we can attain it apart from him. We think that if we just try hard enough, the next time we'll get it right (whatever it is) and we'll be happy. Instead of pushing through to the true source of all joy and happiness, we sinfully believe the false promises of lesser gods.

To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.

Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?

Quem era o idiota que punha a felicidade deste mundo na repartição da riqueza?

The vision that had emerged from the invisible was returning to the invisible. It was no more an appearance that was fading away, having created an illusion. All is but a dream. And, at the peak of happiness, Angélique had vanished, in the faint breath of a kiss.

The festivity had reached that apogee of joy when you face the happy fate of being crushed to death.

Raising her arms, she defied Heaven. 'So,' she cried, 'you prefer your God to me? You think he is stronger than I am. You think he will love you better than I would? Ah, what a child you are! Do stop talking such twaddle. What we are going to do is go back to the garden together, and love each other, be happy and free, for that is life.

il n'envisageait que les biens célestes, ne pouvant comprendre qu'on mît en balance une éternité de félicité avec quelques heures d'une joie périssable.

Bir tek tutkum var; Bunca ac?lar çeken ve mutluluÄŸa hakk? olan insanl?k ad?na duyduÄŸum ayd?nl?k tutkusu. CoÅŸkulu protestom, yüreÄŸimden kopan ç??l?ktan baÅŸka bir ÅŸey deÄŸildir. Beni a??r ceza mahkemesi önüne ç?karmay? göze als?nlar ve herkesin önünde soruÅŸturma aç?ls?n! Bekliyorum.

I have but one passion—that of light. This I ask for in the name of humanity, which has suffered so much, and which has a claim to happiness. My passionate protest is but the cry of my soul. Let anyone who dares bring me before an Assize Court, and let the inquiry be held in broad daylight. I am waiting.

Her pride in self-abnegation had left her, and she accepted that her loved ones could find happiness without her help.

Yes, all you French workers have that one idea: you want to dig up a treasure and live on it for evermore in selfish and lazy isolation. You make a great song against the rich, but when fortune give you some money you haven't the guts to give it back to the poor. You will never deserve to be happy so long as you have personal possessions, and your hatred of the bourgeois simply comes from your mad desire to be bourgeois yourselves in their place!

The whole world awake and wild with joy.

Mr. Heathcliff, you're a cruel man, but you're not a fiend; and you won't, from mere malice, destroy, irrevocably, all my happiness.