Quotes of: Real-happiness Keyword

Deep in her heart, she wasn't sure she deserved to be happy, nor did she believe that she was worthy of someone who seemed...normal.

Safe Haven

The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.

Middlesex

Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.

Middlemarch

After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share?

The Museum of Innocence

She discovered, when it was too late, that she had mistaken the means for the end—that riches, rightly used, are instruments of happiness, but are not in themselves happiness.

Nightmare Abbey

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

Aha! #20 It's not what happens to you in life, it's what you do with what happens that counts.

The Napkin The Melon & The Monkey: How to Be Happy and Successful by Simply Changing Your Mind

Look for Joy: that's God's echo, and his footprint. Happiness . . . happiness and wittiness and cleverness do not count for much when the darkness falls. Joy is tougher.

Nobody's Son

This little girl's grown up by now," she said. Almost. Not quite. I wish you all a long and happy life.

The Lovely Bones

I willingly allow that money does not guarantee happiness; but it must also be allowed that it makes happiness a great deal easier to achieve.

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Money may buy you the means to a happiness, but it cannot buy happiness itself.

The Legacy Letters: His Wife, His Children, His Final Gift

No one would dream of expecting a single individual to be "happy"—once someone is married, however, everyone is very astonished when he is not happy!

Letters on Life

Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants…

Little Women

Acceptance is the letter sealed within the envelope of inner peace. - Charmainism

Shake Hands with Yourself: A Peacemaker's Guide to Happiness & Inner Peace

I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.

Steppenwolf

I think happy thoughts and feel happy things and I do not let myself near the swirling black edges of the hole that is my soul when I look at them.

Perfect Lies

You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship!

The Pursuit of Happiness: 21 Spiritual Rules to Sucess

She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.

Plain Truth

If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Some people are happy to exist, and other people are happy to exit. If you’re wondering why everyone is running, it’s because I just pulled the fire alarm.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

You can never be happy until you understand why you're doing what you're doing.

True You: A Journey to Finding and Loving Yourself