happiness

"I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy."

"We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain."

"I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh."

"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a daily basis."

"The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things."

"There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty."

"Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invicible host against difficulties."

"There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time."

"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times."

"We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away."

"We are a noisy and blessed little family"

"I'm a happy person. If you want to be around me, you can either choose to be happy too, or follow the signs to the nearest exit!"

"Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste."

"Happiness is a state of activity."

"Here, also, the future was cried aloud by the wind through the rocks, so that all those who heard would shiver, and then the liquid spring song of the thrush would make all the beauty of moonlight and sunlight blend together, making it true, so true, that happiness must come again"

"You can be happy with money and you can be wretched with it. It depends on what kind of person you are. -- A Prologue to Love"

"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."

"To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless."

"We are all happy if we but knew it."

"Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths."