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.
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
It takes very little to make us [women] happy, and more than is contained in heaven and earth to keep us that way
I wanted color. I wanted to soar with happiness even if it meant dealing with the weight of fear and guilt, too. I wanted to live.
Beauty, happiness, they're things so big they can't capture them with their scientific words. It's like what they used to call magic.
No gangster is ever happy when he's at peace. The main reason he's in the business is to eliminate his enemies.
