Quotes of: Pursuit-of-happiness Keyword

Life would move on with or without me, and I didn’t need to change myself in order to be beautiful, or happy, or worthly of love. I already was.

Me, Cinderella?

‎'He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.

A Stranger in Mayfair

You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth

Swimming Toward the Ocean: A Novel

Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.

The Story of a New Name

Despite the loss they were suffering, they'd both relaxed - as people do when they realize they've run out of chances for happiness

Snow

It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness.

Shadow Puppets

Happy homes are filled with the noise of children; unhappy homes the noise of their parents

The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning Men from Rot to Rock

Cheap people often are not very happy because they love money more than they love their families

Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed!

Happiness begins with you. Not with your relationship, your friends, or your job. but with you.

The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

I have long since chosen him for my only good, my all; my pleasure, my happiness in this world as in the world to come... -Susanna Wesley

Susanna

Anything can happen. But almost always, just normal things happen and people have happy lives.

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

Humanity? Don't be silly. I know. It is knocking down your fellow-men for the sake of your own happiness.

The Setting Sun

I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.

Strangers on a Train

You can't wait for the perfect moment. You need to make it. Take the happiness you can have now and fuck everything else.

Sylvia's Torment

There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying - and no means by which anyone else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone

The Subjection of Women

Happiness doesn't always come in pink. Learn to appreciate the rainbow.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Kisses are a means to plant on another's lips a smile glossed with happiness.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Happiness depends upon two things—pleasing God, and then pleasing yourself.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Never seen the sea! How could anyone not have seen the sea? Surely the sea must somehow belong to the happiness of every child.

The Time of the Angels

I look at the hundreds of algebra problems facing me in the next three days. And here I thought I’d figured out the equation to my happiness.

Take a Bow

It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.

Tenth of December