What lived on-in me- was the discomfort of how completely I'd outgrown the novel I'd once been so happy to live in
Um i'm happy to sit close to you and everything, but i had no idea you would like it so much,' Paris muttered.
Oh, I envy you!" he cried. "You are still nourished by yesterday's alms, but yesterday's happiness no longer nourishes me.
Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.
No one ever forgets a toy that made him or her supremely happy as a child, even if that toy is replaced by one like it that is much nicer.
Pain is not seen as an objection to life: 'If you have no happiness left to give me, well then! you still have your pain...
I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple.
It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.
They’ve worked the absolute-power-corrupts-absolutely truth since the beginning of time. They foment destruction and chaos. It puts them in their happy place.
As long as you know who you are, and see what makes you happy, it doesn't matte how others see you
The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.
The Bible said, as Chris quoted one memorable day, there was a time for everything. I figured my time for happiness was just ahead, waiting for me.
You save me every single day. You are the one thing that makes me happy. You are the only thing I need.
I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.
Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.
We search for happiness across every landscape, if only we knew that the seed in which it first grows, is planted within ourselves...
If you're still, and if you don't hope too much, peace will come to you. It's a grace. But you have to happiness.
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.
What's all this hiding happiness and wine away? I've lined up with the libertines now, come what may.
How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?
If you can't get to be uncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. [...] live well and die happy.
