Quotes of: Greatest-happiness Keyword

You can either feed negative thoughts or you can starve the suckers.

Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

Those who don't take themselves too seriously have marriages that seem to just be better.

Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

Making love is not equivalent to love. But not making love is most certainly a waste. We didn't want to be wasteful.

Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross Domestic Product. attr to Buthan's King Jigme Singye Wangchuck

Healthy at 100: The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World's Healthiest and Longest-Lived Peoples

To secure his king's trust, his family's future, and perhaps even his own happiness, he needed to convince her he was more than a mercenary -- in fact, a man who would stand by her side.

His Captive Princess

It isn't the happy ending Ingrid and I had dreamed up, but it's all a part of what I'm working through. The way life changes. The way people and things disappear. Then appear, unexpectedly, and hold you close.

Hold Still

We were an imperfect family. I knew that. But at last we were on each other's side, dug in with a new and more profound commitment. Our happiness was hard won, it was ours and I was determined to keep us whole.

The Hurricane Sisters

The ocean-blue bowl won’t refuse to bruise, won’t hold it back from the gaping earth-wounds. There will still come water, chill wind and happy goosebumps, and in the utmost corners of oaks, leaves laughing.

Having Decided To Stay

It isn't the happy ending that Ingrid and I have dreamed up, but it's all a part of what I'm working through. The way life changes. The way people and things disappear. Then appear, unexpectedly, and had you close

Hold Still

Personally, I don’t like inherently happy people. I don’t trust them. I think there’s something seriously wrong with anyone who isn’t at least a little let down by the world.

How to Kill a Rock Star

Each time he suggested they get married, she said no. They were too happy, precariously so, and she wanted to guard that bond; she feared that marriage would flatten it into a prosaic partnership.

Half of a Yellow Sun

Happiness is free, Mama says, as sure as the blinkin' stars, the withered arms the trees throw down for our fires, the waterproofin' on our skin, and the tongues of wind curlin' the walnut leaves before slidin' down our ears.

If You Find Me

Don't look to a husband or a child or a friend or your family to make you happy. It is not within their capacity to do so.

The Incredible Gifts of Women: 12 Gifts That Will Change Your Life Now

Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.

Inkheart

That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed.

I Am Legend and Other Stories

When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.

I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

...sadness is a powerful foe, maybe harder to keep down than happiness...

Ida B. . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World

Willem laughs again. The sound is clear and strong as a bell, and it fills me with joy, and it's like, for the first time in my life, I understand that this is the point of laughter, to spread happiness.

Just One Day

The sound is clear and strong as a bell, and it fills me with joy, and it's like, for the first time in my life, I understand that this is the point of laughter, to spread happiness.

Just One Day

That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy - a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds of other things with it, make a duty of it, or a battleground, or a prison, but that does not make it any prettier...

The Journey to the East