Quotes About Happiness

I never care what I do, so I always have a good time.

Our specialty is stories about little girls who break their spines and get adopted by grouchy old men because they smile so much. You'd think we were a race of cheerful cripples and that the common end of the Russian peasant was suicide— Six

A boldogság-jegyezte meg egyszer Maury Noble- nem több, mint egy különösen elviselhetetlen nyomorúság megszünését követÅ' egy óra.

Era uno di quei rari sorrisi dotati di un'eterna rassicurazione, uno di quelli in cui t'imbatti quattro o cinque volte al massimo nella vita.

One truth opened another. Ona still shaded everything we did. Ona's death was the last family affair. I'd seen Man suffer. I'd seen her break. Now more than anything. I wanted to see her happy.

Idgie smiled back at her and looked up into the clear blue sky that reflected in her eyes and she was as happy as anybody who is in love in the summertime can be.

Depression years come back to me now as the happy times, even though we were all struggling. We were happy and didn't know it.

Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better.

Mrs. Threadgoode pulled something out of the Cracker Jack box and all of a sudden her eyes lit up. "Oh Evelyn, look! Here's my prize. It's a little miniature chicken… just what I like!" and she held it out for her friend to see.

They also learned that the very best way to start a marriage was with a good laugh.

It's kind of funny, really, all these years, everybody has been so busy trying to figure what life was all about, and all the while, it was just something for us to enjoy.

Idgie le sorrise e guardò il cielo azzurro che si rifletteva nei suoi occhi. Si sentiva felice come si può essere soltanto quando ci si innamora in tempo d'estate.

178 Secondo me la gente non è più felice come una volta. Non si vedono più facce contente, o almeno io non ne vedo. Quando Frances ci ha portato a fare spese, ho detto alla signora Otis: Guarda, hanno tutti quanti la faccia scura, anche i giovani.

You cain't dwell on sadness, oh, it'll make you sick faster than anything in this world.

The Joy of a Loving God.

I think most people are confused about life, because it's not just one thing going on," said Elner. "It's many things going on at the same time. Life is both sad and happy, simple and complex, all at the same time.

My Aunt Bess is about sixty-five years old and has never been married. She told me that they may put Miss on her tombstone, but that she hasn't missed a thing.

Of course, she seems happy, Mabel," said Mrs. Gumms, "but you know, no woman is really happy without a home and children." Mrs. Bell said, "I'm not so sure about that. Oh, not that I don't love Lloyd and the children, but still…it might be nice to have a little time to myself every once in a while.

And you can't be happy and in a rage at the same time.

It is the memory of past happiness that makes the present so intolerable.

If anything happiness is a feeling of being essential

Ricos y pobres, parece que los estadounidenses ven la bancarrota como un «derecho inalienable», casi en igualdad de condiciones con «la vida, la libertad y la búsqueda de la felicidad».

Done. I have a date. Well, hot damn!

each of us does what we have to do for our own personal happiness. Because we're the ones who have to live with that happiness. If it's at someone else's expense, we have to live with that, too.