3,271 quotes found
“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”
“I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of somet...”
“Exactly. How can you know it makes you happy if you’ve never experienced it?”“There are different kinds of happy,” she said. “Some kinds don’t need any proof.”
“Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.There is no happiness like mine.I have been eating poetry.”
“That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.”
“The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.'Rant meant that...”
“Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”
“Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.”
“[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.”
“Happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won--some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find it--but something to carry doggedly with you through e...”
“For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering”
“The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship”
“I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.”
“There's a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in these streets, and of a general state of longing, a hunger for life to begin that from this distan...”
“Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.”
“Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.”
“For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path.”
“Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.”
“No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.”
“[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.”
