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Quotes About Happiness

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.
~ Ann Landers
You're depressed, not crazy. It's not insane to be depressed in this world. It's more sane than being happy. I never trust those upbeat individuals who grin no matter what's going on. Those are the ones with a screw loose, if you ask me.
~ Ann Napolitano
But Carrie had told her friend once, during high school, not to model herself on Julia. "I like your mom a lot," Carrie had said, "but anyone that dresses and does their hair as carefully as your mom does every single day is unhappy on the inside. She's trying to hide all her messiness, and I want better than that for you.
~ Ann Napolitano
You're depressed, not crazy. It's not insane to be depressed in this world. It's more sane than being happy.
~ Ann Napolitano
I like your mom a lot," Carrie had said, "but anyone that dresses and does their hair as carefully as your mom does every single day is unhappy on the inside. She's trying to hide all her messiness, and I want better than that for you.
~ Ann Napolitano
They were dismantling their habits and routines, and it was like pulling up floorboards and finding joy underneath.
~ Ann Napolitano
can't bear to pretend happiness." Sylvie
~ Ann Napolitano
pleasantly tickled.
~ Ann Napolitano
Time doesn't make a full life. Living your life to the fullest makes it full.
~ Ann Pearlman
A good education is another name for happiness.
~ Ann Plato
all the woods and strands of Naples re-echoed with — 'O! giorno felíce! O! giorno felíce!' 'You see,' said Paulo, when they had departed, and he came to himself again, "you see how people get through their misfortunes, if they have but a heart to bear up against them, and do nothing that can lie on their conscience afterwards; and how suddenly one comes to be happy, just when one is beginning to think one never is to be happy again!
~ Ann Radcliffe
Wisdom or accident, at length, recall us from our error, and offers to us some object capable of producing a pleasing, yet lasting effect, which effect, therefore, we call happiness. Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of reason, may be expected to produce uniformity of effect.
~ Ann Radcliffe
Dear! Dear! To see how gentlefolks can afford to throw away their happiness! Now, if you were poor people, there would be none of this. To talk of unworthiness, and not caring about one another, when I know there are not such a kind-hearted lady and gentlemen in the whole province, nor any that love one another half so well, if truth was spoken!
~ Ann Radcliffe
The sympathy expressed in the tone of his voice and manner, proved that his happiness, on this occasion, almost equalled her own.
~ Ann Radcliffe
you see how people get through their misfortunes, if they have a heart to bear up against them, and do nothing that can lie on their conscience afterwards; and how suddenly one comes to be happy, just, perhaps, when one is beginning to think one never is to be happy again!
~ Ann Radcliffe
Absorbed in the single idea of being beloved, her imagination soared into the regions of romantic bliss, and bore her high above the possibility of evil.
~ Ann Radcliffe
Though splendour may grace happiness, virtue only can bestow it.
~ Ann Radcliffe
You see," said Paulo, when they had departed, and he came to himself again, "you see how people get through their misfortunes, if they have but a heart to bear up against them, and do nothing that can lie on their conscience afterwards; and how suddenly one comes to be happy, just when one is beginning to think one never is to be happy again!
~ Ann Radcliffe
unpacked her books, her sweet delight in happier days, and her soothing resource in the hours of moderate sorrow: but there were hours when even these failed of their effect; when the genius, the taste, the enthusiasm of the sublimest writers were felt no longer.
~ Ann Radcliffe
But no matter for that, you can be tolerably happy, perhaps, notwithstanding; but as for guessing how happy I am, or knowing anything about the matter,--- O! its quite beyond what you can understand.
~ Ann Radcliffe
Discontment is an insidious thing, trapping us into thinking that which is enough is longer enough, and that which is satisfying is no longer satisfying.
~ Ann Spangler
The most important thing to wear is a smile.
~ Ann Taylor
How the miracle of our meeting Shone there and sang, I didn't want to return From there to anywhere. Happiness instead of duty Was bitter delight to me. Not obliged to speak to anyone, I spoke for a long while. Let passions stifle lovers, Demanding answers, We, my dear, are only souls At the limits of the world.
~ Anna Akhmatova
you are many years late; how happy I am to see you
~ Anna Akhmatova