3,271 quotes found
“If I am destined to be happy with you here—how short is the longest Life—I wish to believe in immortality—I wish to live with you for ever.”
“We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.”
“.. she believed a great happiness awaited her somewhere, and for this reason she remained calm as the days flew by.”
“If there was one thing that life has taught me, it’s to accept the most foolish and unthinkable happiness.”
“Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom”
“If you see the world and yourself through a lens smudged by negativity then you’ll find much misery. If you look outwards and inwards through lens brightened by positivity you’ll find much to be ha...”
“Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in the very moment of their triumph without having thought, loved, suffered...”
“He tapped my chest. 'Happy is here.' He tapped his own chest. 'Here.'I looked down past my chin. 'Inside?''Inside.'It was getting crowded in there. First angel. Now happy. It seemed there was more ...”
“He will make you happy, Fanny; I know he will make you happy; but you will make him everything.”
“I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.”
“They think I’m simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn’t I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I am simpleminded. Maybe that’s the key: simple.”
“Happiness comes in many forms — in the company of good friends, in the feeling you get when you make someone else’s dream come true, or in the promise of hope renewed. It’s okay to let yourself be ...”
“She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.”
“Happiness isn’t the reward we retrieve after a long struggle. It arrives daily, in those clear moments when our hearts are tender, pricked by the embrace of a loved one, the beauty of a single flow...”
“I wished upon a star and the heavens sent me you”
“How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”
“No man is happy who does not think himself so.”
“I want to be careful not to throw all this away. This is happiness. I think this is what happiness is. I haven't got it yet, but I can sense it out there. I feel I'm close to it. Some days, I'm so ...”
“Happiness is not a state of being. Happiness is a vector, it is movement.”
“We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.”
