happiness Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. -Do you think artists are supposed to be happy? -Everyone is supposed to be. -I said staunchly,and I knew that I was indeed an idiot and that was my destiny and I didn't mind it The Swan Thieves

2. -Paint-My girlfriend is so besotted that she can't take her eyes off me. After we've turned out the light she puts on her night-vision goggles, and watched me as I sleep. Quite often I am woken by her sighing and involuntary yelps of happiness. This has been going on for years, and is showing no sign of abating. Once I asked her to stop all this infra-red activity, but it didn't really work; I'd wake up to find her covering me in luminous paint, and softly whispering, 'Sometimes I wonder if you know how much I love you. Anthropology

3. -Please, Anita, go home, and don’t freak. Just go home, and be happy. Be happy, and let everyone around you be happy. Is that so hard?When Jason said it like that, it didn’t seem hard. In fact, it seemed to make a lot of sense, but inside, it felt hard. Inside it felt like the hardest thing in the world. To just let go, and not pick everything to death. To just let go and enjoy what you had. To just let go and not make everybody around you miserable with your own internal dialogue. To just let go and be happy. So simple. So difficult. So terrifying. Incubus Dreams

4. .. she believed a great happiness awaited her somewhere, and for this reason she remained calm as the days flew by. Sunflower

5. ... but happiness is to joy as an electric light bulb is to the sun. Happiness always has an object, you're happy because of something, it's a condition whose existence depends on external things. Joy, on the other hand, has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason, it's like the sun, its burning is fueled by its own heart. Follow Your Heart

6. ... each gratification points to the ultimate one, and that all happiness has some connection with eternal beatitude. Some connection, if only this: that every fulfillment this side of Heaven instantly reveals its inadequacy. It is immediately evident that such satisfactions are not enough; they are not what we have really sought; they cannot really satisfy us at all. Happiness and Contemplation

7. ... for the brightness had shown suffering the way. The Book Thief

8. ... there was no need for him to hasten towards the attainment of a happiness already captured and held in a safe place, which would not escape his grasp again. Swann's Way

9. ... too much brooding, not enough doing.

10. ...[A] certain degree of un-understanding (not mis-, but un-) is the only possible sanctuary which one human being can offer to another in the midst of the devastating intimacy of a happy marriage. Mrs. Miniver

11. ...anticipation of happiness can sometimes be as gratifying as its consummation. Girl in a Blue Dress

12. ...because all happiness is contagious, and disarms the spirit of hatred. Suite Française

13. ...because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life. Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

14. ...dare we live for one another? Dare we be happy?""Child, it's our only hope. Let us make our love atone for the hate of our fathers. We have been doomed by their sins. Not that...nor anythin' can keep us apart. I am a slayer of men, but I think God spoke to me today. Tonto Basin

15. …Elizabeth, agitated and confused, rather knew that she was happy, than felt herself to be so… Pride and Prejudice

16. …feeling as if all the happiness and support of their lives was about to be taken from them. Little Women

17. …for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people. Mansfield Park

18. ...happiness doesn't come from having more. Happiness comes from being grateful for what you already have. The Golden Quest: Explore Your Way to a Rich Life

19. …I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy. 2666

20. ...is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

21. ...look with-in (Jesus) Real Happiness Challenge

22. …she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever… Northanger Abbey

23. ...so i will greet youin a wayall loved thingsare meant to be greetedwith a tear in my heartand a poem in my eye. Turquoise Silence

24. ...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying. A Fine Balance

25. ...the late Mr. Seymour himself has already served as a cautionary tale that happiness as a matter of course does not follow wealth. We cannot fulfill ourselves by worldly possessions. Wealth is but a tool that can be put to use for better or worse, but material wealth pales next to the bounty of human connection....Without connection this life is meaningless.[Nora Bergen, Letter to brother Finn] Small World

26. ...the Puritans compressed whatever mirth and public joy they deemed allowable to human infirmity; thereby so far dispelling the customary cloud, that, for the space of a single holiday, they appeared scarcely more grave than most other communities at a period of general affliction. The Scarlet Letter

27. ...The world is full of happy people but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal to get in the papers. No one knows about all the happy people... A Girl of the Limberlost

28. ...with a rush of feeling he felt that this must be happiness. As soon as the thought came to him, he fought it back, blaming the whiskey. The very idea was as dangerous as presumptive speech: happiness could not be sought or worried into being, or even fully grasped; it should be allowed its own slow pace so that it passes unnoticed, if it ever comes at all. That They May Face The Rising Sun

29. ...ежели разобраться, что такое счастье? Это - жизнь без страха...(Корнелий Глас) Выстрел с монитора. Гуси-гуси, га-га-га...

30. ..Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary; they evolved by chance, as a result of random responses to accidental conditions. But once they become part of the norms and habits of a culture, people assume that this is how things must be; they come to believe they have no other options. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience