happiness

"He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul."

"Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy,"said my father as he watched the three beauties. "But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this?"

"Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier."

"Happy is the soul that has a friend. Happier is the soul that trusts in the truth of the heart of a friend. Happiest is the soul that knows the solemnity of friendship and honours its laws."

"I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect."

"It’s not about working for money, it’s about having money work for you."

"The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be."

"I hate going through this when we just found...,"his voice trailed off."Found what?""Each other,"he finished, half-smiling."

"A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?"

"LEONATOWell, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.BEATRICENot till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred."

"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand."

"[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible."

"I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that."

"Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery."

"After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?"

"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."

"If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can."

"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."

"Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more."

"Mother earth cried so much that she has pool of tears more than the land of happiness."