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Quotes About Happiness

Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie.
~ Rudyard Kipling
The Man went to sleep in front of the fire ever so happy; but the Woman sat up, combing her hair. She took the bone of the shoulder of mutton – the big fat blade bone – and she looked at the wonderful marks on it, and she threw more wood on the fire, and she made a Magic. She made the first Singing Magic in the world.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Kim dived into the happy Asiatic disorder which, if you only allow time, will bring you everything that a simple man needs.
~ Rudyard Kipling
But no sooner had he walked to the city wall than the monkeys pulled him back, telling him that he did not know how happy he was, and pinching him to make him grateful.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Do not pay too much attention to fame, power, or money. Some day you will meet a person who cares for none of these, and then you will know how poor you are.
~ Rudyard Kipling
In those first days they were happy.
~ Rumer Godden
There is a discrepancy between our craving and the world we live in, between our expectations and the way things are. We want the world to be other than it is. Our craving is based on a fundamental misjudgement of the situation; a judgement that assumes that when our craving gets what it wants we will be happy, that when our craving possesses the objects of its desire we will be satisfied. But
~ Rupert Gethin
How do you stay cheerful?' I said. 'I don't mind being alive,' he said.
~ Russell Hoban
Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.
~ Ruth Fulton Benedict
Lord, my deep joy is not in what I am — or used to be — as a mere human being. Instead, "all my springs of joy are in You" (Psalm 87:7, NASB). I
~ Ruth Myers
My throat clogged up like an old drain with these happy memories.
~ Ruth Ozeki
We waited, eating resilient, deeply satisfying bread dipped in spicy oil that tasted exactly like fresh olives. Doug reached out and stroked my knee and I had a sudden conscious thought that I was happy.
~ Ruth Reichl
I got back into the car thinking how lucky I was to be aware of happiness. Most people don't recognize their own good fortune until it has departed. And then it is too late." "What about Remy? What
~ Ruth Reichl
the secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things.
~ Ruth Reichl
In the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy, More important, Mom showed me that it is never too late to find out how to do it.
~ Ruth Reichl
I got back into the car thinking how lucky I was to be aware of happiness!
~ Ruth Reichl
What I want most for you is challenging work that makes you proud. It's the key to happiness.
~ Ruth Reichl
We are original in our happy moments. Sorrow has only one voice, one cry.
~ Ruth Rendell
Cleaning bored her. She was happiest when sitting about and reading. She had read thousands of books, seeing no point in doing anything else unless you had to.
~ Ruth Rendell
euphoria he felt after
~ Ruth Rendell
Anyone who's had a visit from them has discovered an important fact about life: namely, that misery grows up all by itself, in a hidden place, without your even being aware of it, and then one day, suddenly, it knocks on your door. Happiness is just the opposite. Happiness is a cute little flower on your veranda, or a baby canary. You can see it growing, little by little, right before your eyes.
~ Ry? Murakami
People were infected with the concept that happiness was something outside themselves, and a new and powerful form of loneliness was born. Mix loneliness with stress and enervation, and all sorts of madness can occur. Anxiety increases, and in order to obliterate the anxiety, people turn to extreme sex, violence, and even murder.
~ Ry? Murakami
If everyone could feel as I felt at that moment, dressed in my preppy sweater and McGregor coat and about to set out on a little journey with my Bambi-eyed girlfriend on Christmas Eve, all conflicts in the world would vanish. Mellow smiles would rule the earth.
~ Ry? Murakami
People were infected with the concept that happiness was something outside themselves
~ Ry? Murakami