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Quotes About Happy

There were worlds within worlds, and each will have within its confines values and meaning. It may not really matter to the world at large, thought Isabel, that I should feel happy rather than sad, but it matters to me, and the fact that it matters matters.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
They paid the deposit immediately and appeared to be good tenants although they were reluctant to invite him over the threshold once they had moved in. "There is no need for you to come in," he had been told by a burly Russian who answered the door when he had called to see whether all was well. "There is nothing wrong. Everything functions. We are very happy. Goodbye.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
your mind like that, then you kept it in good order for a longer period of time, and you put off the day when you would be sitting in the sun, like some of the very old people, not exactly sure which day of the week it was and wondering why the world no longer made the sense that it once did. Yet such people were often happy, he reminded himself, possibly because it did not really matter what day of the week it was anyway.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
There were world within worlds, and each will have within its confines values and meanings. It may not really matter to the world at large, thought Isabel, that I should feel happy rather than sad, but it matters to me, and the fact that it matters matters.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Thou and You and A Love Letter She substituted, by a chance, For empty 'you' – the gentle 'thou'; And all my happy dreams, at once, In loving heart again resound. In bliss and silence do I stay, Unable to maintain my role: 'Oh, how sweet you are!' I say – 'How I love thee!' says my soul.
~ Alexander Sergeyevitch Pushkin
One of the injustices of the world was that it was so easy to make the innocent and caring ones happy with so little.
~ Alexandra Ripley
love-based thought that focuses on the possibilities and directs the situation toward a happy outcome.
~ Doreen Virtue
There is no greater sorrowThan to be mindful of the happy timeIn misery.
~ Durante degli Alighieri
The gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation in life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them in all situations!
~ Benjamin Rush
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
~ Jonathan Swift
My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
Life is a movie, and you're the star. Give it a happy ending.
~ Joan Rivers
Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments.
~ Gustave Flaubert
This is a modern fairytale. No happy endings. No wind in our sails. But I can't imagine a life without. Breathless moments.
~ Selena Gomez
While I am flattered about the speculation of being enticed out of retirement, I'm happy with life as a bad golfer!
~ Chipper Jones
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life
~ William Ellery Channing
Being cheerful on the phone is part of giving. Sure, we all have our problems, but why inflict them on our friends? I think I can count on the fingers of one hand the people who call up with a cheery, happy voice—and keep it that way. People with problems seem to find that telephone irresistible. When they're happy they just don't think about sharing it with other people.
~ Joan Crawford
You get a happy feeling helping someone read. You feel sort of like a wizard.
~ Joanne Rocklin
I hope the people I hurt can see past the prank to the very real respect and affection I feel for them. If not, I may have to take my own advice, buy myself some cute shoes and march on. I hope that's not how it ends, though. I hope this boy-meets-girl-pretending-to-be-boy story has a happy ending, one with less bitter and more sweet.
~ Jody Gehrman
A happy phrase — "at home " — And now unknown to anyone, Everybody looks through another man's windows.
~ Anna Akhmatova
How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.
~ Anna Held
While he waited, he made up the bed,more to discourage Meg from falling back into it than because he wanted to tidy the room. Besides, running his hands over the sheets and breathing in her scent made him happy
~ Anne Bishop
I started in the restaurant business at the age of 19 as a waitress. I loved the atmosphere and the camaraderie of the restaurant business. I loved not having to go to an office. I loved making people happy.
~ Anne Burrell
But whenever I take to my restless dreamless dewdrenched bed I cannot close my eyes – fear stands over me instead of sleep. And whenever I think to sing or hum a tune to stay awake then my tears fall. This house is in trouble. The good days are gone. How I pray for a change! A happy change! A light in darkness.
~ Anne Carson