Quotes About Happiness

We are one of those couples I used to watch, thinking to myself that I'd never be on the inside of something so special. I remember reassuring myself that it probably looked nicer that it actually was. I am happy to be wrong about that.

I feel freer with Dex than I ever did single, I feel more myself with him than without maybe true love does that.

I subscribe to the notion that if you worry about something, it is somehow less likely to happen.

Like the perfect beach vacation, where the routine is so blissfully uneventful that when you return home and friends ask how your trip was, you can't really recall what exactly you did to fill up so many hours. That's what being with Dex is like.

I feel more myself with him than without. Maybe true love does that.

I smile at my husband's unwavering thoughtfulness. Sometimes he really does seem too good to be true.

She was generally a happy person but had a tendency to live in the past, making frequent references to "when you kids were little.

He aprendido que eres tú quien forja tu propia felicidad, que una parte de ir a por lo que quieres significa perder otras cosas. Y cuando las apuestas son altas, las pérdidas también pueden ser igualmente altas.

We all agree that there is no bright-line litmus test for what works in marriage, or what happiness looks like. That it all comes down to the two people inside the relationship.

thinking that's the thing about Andy—I'm always at least okay when I'm with him.

No vivieron felices para siempre, pues nada vive eternamente; pero vivieron tantos años como es natural, y después pasaron juntos a la tierra donde los árboles florecen y dan fruto a un mismo tiempo, y donde las flores de primavera nunca se marchitan.

Happiness, in the land of Deals, is measured on a sliding scale. What makes you happy? A long white silent car with smoked-glass windows, with a chauffeur and a stocked bar and two beautiful objects of desire in the back seat? An apartment in a nice part of town? A kinder lover? A place to stand that's out of the wind? A brief cessation of pain? It depends on what you have at the moment I ask that question, and what you don't have. Wait a little, just a little. The scale will slide again.

It's better to be happy than comfortable, if you can't have both.

For some people, she thought, trials were only temporary; they sailed towards happiness through the roughest weather.

Happiness as un-pin-downable as a louse: you feel the tickle of its passage but your fingers close on nothing.

It was like wanting ice cream instead of meat loaf, and being told that children in refugee camps would be grateful for the meat loaf. Yes, of course she had nothing to complain about, compared to so many people, but when had that ever stopped anyone from complaining? Happiness was a balloon that always hovered just out of arm's reach.

The days of my vanity are over and heaven knows they weren't happy enough to regret

There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer: no disease that love will not heal: no door that enough love will not open...It makes no difference how deep set the trouble: how hopeless the outlook: how muddled the tangle: how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world...

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy!

I just want a sunny, lazy, windy time with the people I like best.

thankfully.

I've got such a lovely feeling, said Lucy-Ann, looking the picture of happiness. You know - that feeling you get at the very beginning of a lovely holiday - when all the days spread out before you, sunny & lazy & sort of enchanted. You'll end up by being a poet if you don't look out, said Philip, from the wheel. Well, if a poet feels like I feel just exactly at this moment, I wouldn't mind being one for the rest of my life, even if it meant having to write poetry, said Lucy-Ann.

He thumped his tail vigorously on the floor

and Jack, his tail well up, and