For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain?

The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where neither then mind conceived of nor the hand intended any.

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...

I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a...

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery-air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content. And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose tolearn.

That was an evil terror---- an ugly inmate to have found a nestling-place in Godfrey's kindly disposition; but no disposition is a security from evil wishes to a man whose happiness hangs on...

Mara, that's the life I want to give you. That's what I'm offering you. I want to fill you life with color and warmth. I want to fill it with light. Give me a chance

Apparently he thought he deserved only to be loved--from a distance, though--and given what he wanted. And in return he would be . . . what? Pleasant? Generous? Maybe all he was really saying was: I...

We are all a great deal luckier that we realize, we usually get what we want - or near enough.

There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my brain tells me it is the angle at which two...

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

And they did what lovers often do when they think the future stretches out endless before them as bright as on the noon of creation day: they talked ceaselessly of the past, as if each must be caught...

If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?

Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness....

There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations

A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.

Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could...

With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.

It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a .

By living your misery, you can be unhappy or happy. It is in this choice that your freedom consists. You are free to melt your individuality in the pot of multitude with a feeling of defeat, or with...

But what now if all the peace, the comfort, the contentment were to come to a horrible end?

But pearls are for tears, the old legend says, Gilbert had objected.I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as sad. My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyes-when...

So that made me happy but the part that really made me happy was that you wanted me to be happy. That's what Thank you means.

Find one person to trust-there need only be one. With them, share every shame, every secret and listen to theirs… with love. Bare hearts and souls until there is understanding. Of a certainty, such...

-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

How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness?-from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow...

It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.

They all had their own struggles and stories to tell and they al made it to this point, happy and in love.