Happiness Came Quotes

#1. It was the strangest things, how happiness came out of nowhere and inflated your soul.

Kate DiCamillo

#2. Moments of something this good, this unexpected and off his usual path, they always dredged up old shit, like somehow happiness came with sorrow as its anchor.

Heidi Cullinan

#3. Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.

Julien Green

#4. If you knew where your happiness came from, it gave you patience. You realized that a lot of the time, you were just waiting out a situation, and that took the pressure off; you no longer looked to every interaction to actually do something for you.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#5. what I remember most of all is that I was happy - I no longer feared the school bell at the end of the day, I knew where I'd be living the next month, and no one's romantic decisions affected my life. And out of that happiness came so many of the opportunities I've had for the past twelve years.

J.D. Vance

#6. Happiness came in moments of unpredictable loveliness.

Anthony Marra

#7. she knew the real threat to her happiness came not from the dot in the distance, but from looking for it. Expecting it. Waiting for it. And in some cases, creating it.

Louise Penny

#8. Alas, Abdullah and Pari, Baba Ayub's days of happiness came to an end.

Khaled Hosseini

#9. And suddenly one of those moments of intense happiness came to her
a sense of the loveliness of the world
of her own intense enjoyment of that world.

Agatha Christie

#10. Finally, when happiness came knocking on my door, I'd be waiting. I'd open the door and say: "Where have you been? What took you so long? And if you just give me a moment I'll pack and go with you."

Constance Briscoe

#11. Sometimes it felt as if all happiness came at a price. You could never, ever, have perfection. Life gave you beauty so you could bear the pain.

Ann Aguirre

#12. Life had stopped. Life would have to go on. Life went on, and in time the unbelievable began to happen; pleasure and happiness came back, and even joy. But love? Not again. I said it very firmly. Not again.

Mary Stewart

#13. My happiness came from learning my purpose, which is to be honest and to share things that normal people probably wouldn't share, in an effort to support and uplift other women. I love that my journey gives other women hope, letting them see how far God can bring a soul.

Karrine Steffans

#14. I thought happiness came from achievement.

Paul Henderson

#15. I came to understand that happiness and vulnerability are often the same thing.

Oliver Burkeman

#16. It came to me that I should teach this truth for it is real happiness and joy. The cessation of suffering is possible.

Gautama Buddha

#17. I came to this world to bloom and spread my love to fill the world with happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#18. It was always a relief when she came home to him. Like water or food. Like music or that moment when you cut yourself with a knife and squeeze the skin and no blood oozes out.

Francesca Lia Block

#19. After the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians were crazed with happiness. People who never met each other before hugged each other in the streets - convinced that tomorrow things would look different. Then came the many disappointments.

Octavian Paler

#20. Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.

Maurice Sendak

#21. It made no difference. Just to be in love
seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return - that perhaps true loving can never know anything but true happiness.

Dodie Smith

#22. He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much. It seemed to him it was probably because they could not take enough happiness just from the sky and the moon to carry them over the low feelings that came to all men.

Larry McMurtry

#23. But at the end of every show we would realize that true happiness often lies where you very least expect it. It might arrive in a form of a gentle breeze or a handful of peanuts, but when it came, we would seize it with our own brand of folksy wisdom.

David Sedaris

#24. That was when it came to him that the only unmixed happiness he could think of was when he quit his job with the city after that fight with Bob Wright. So he told Doc that, too, and said, "I never meant to be a lawman. Stumbled into it, really. When I quit, it was a weight off." Dealing

Mary Doria Russell

#25. We came to this world with nothing but love and blessing. The purpose of our life is to be happy by loving and serving.

Debasish Mridha

#26. Happiness was a real, actual, achievable possibility. It came when you called. Or no, it never left you in the first place. They

Lev Grossman

#27. ...
I kiss Allyson.
I complete the history that came before us, and in doing so, begin one all of our own.
Double happiness: I get it now.

Gayle Forman

#28. Most of us will perish before knowing who we are and why we came here.

Debasish Mridha

#29. I'm proud to have been a Yankee. But I have found more happiness and contentment since I came back home to San Francisco than any man has a right to deserve. This is the friendliest city in the world.

Joe DiMaggio

#30. If we know that we all came from the same place and our destination is the same, then how could there be any conflicts? Why are we are loving each other and why we are not in peace?

Debasish Mridha

#31. I came. I saw the enormous possibilities and power of the human mind. It is the biggest plot of fertile land in the world. We just have to find the right see and the right technique of cultivation.

Debasish Mridha

#32. What troops Of generous boys in happiness thus bred Saturnians through life's Tempe led, Went from the North and came from the South, With golden mottoes in the mouth, To lie down midway on a bloody bed.

Herman Melville

#33. Nobody else knows your reason for being. You do. Your bliss guides you to it. When you follow your bliss, when you follow your path to joy, your conversation is of joy, your feelings are of joy - you're right on the path of that which you intended when you came forth into this physical body.

Esther Hicks

#34. To think, after all this time, after all the searching and all the waiting, after all the regret and the time she'd spent away, she came back to find that happiness was right where she's left it.
On a football field in Mullaby, North Carolina.
Waiting for her.

Sarah Addison Allen

#35. Probably the wisest words that were ever uttered to me. Came from a therapist. I was sitting in her office, crying my eyes out ... and she said, So let me get this straight. You base your personal happiness on things entirely out of your control.

Laura Munson

#36. Styxx was damned and happiness never came to the damned.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#37. We came to this world with two wealths, love and hope, but, in the end, love is our only wealth.

Debasish Mridha

#38. We came to the world with love and hope
We are the creation of hope, faith and love.

Debasish Mridha

#39. Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return
that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness. For a moment I felt that I had discovered a great truth.

Dodie Smith

#40. This wasn't a place for illusions; the reality here was the genuine happiness that came about from the natural magic of standing next to someone and being consumed by the fortitude in his or her humanity.

Ishmael Beah

#41. Because he wanted nothing from her; this was a generous, expansive feeling, unattached to the possibility of gratification; it was the simple happiness that came from knowing that one particular person was alive in the world

Jo Baker

#42. Another sigh came from the window
quite a resigned sigh. 'She's life and hope and happiness, my whole world now.' He felt the quiver of a tear on his eyelid.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#43. Almost Kien was tempted to believe in happiness, that contemptible life-goal of illiterates. If it came of itself, without being hunted for, if you did not hold it fast by force and treated it with a certain condescension, it was permissible to endure its presence for a few days

Elias Canetti

#44. One of the greatest days of my life was when I came to understand that other people's approval and my happiness were not related.

Ronda Rousey

#45. They said she could not do it. But she didn't listen so when she did it. And when they stood in awe, she did not hear their applause. The only validation she needed came from the voice inside her head. The voice that had always been there saying, "You got this.

Toni Sorenson

#46. Prior to the Industrial Age and during the long Agri-cultural Age life was a matter of survival and the concept of 'happiness' was superfluous, but with the industrial age came 'leisure time' and thus happiness was something one had 'time' to pursue".

~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

#47. A sudden happiness, a feeling of bliss, the joy that came of freedom and a new life - these were the gifts she had left him.

Milan Kundera

#48. Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.

Tecumseh

#49. I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#50. I came to this world just to give love,
just to fill the world with silent song of love,
just to feel and share the power of love,
just to sing the song of dedication to love.

Debasish Mridha

#51. With life came loss. The war and the years since had taught her that. There's be sadness in her life to come, as well as happiness. Even the most blessed lives had both. She'd live them as they came.

Jackie French

#52. I tried to communicate happiness in that word, but I don't know if it came out that way. All I was feeling was despair. And envy. Envy so thick and so black I felt like I was choking on it.

Jenny Han

#53. Death is quick. What is important is the happiness that came before it.

Michelle Moran

#54. She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, that strange happiness that was sometimes so big that it felt like sadness. It was the way she felt when she looked at the stars.

Maggie Stiefvater

#55. Because He came to earth, we have a perfect example to follow. As we strive to become more like Him, we will have joy and happiness in our lives and peace each day of the year. It is His example which, if followed, stirs within us more kindness and love, more respect and concern for others.

Thomas S. Monson

#56. I came here to show you the way to happiness is not through success but through love, compassion, and kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#57. You are my eternal love and I am your eternal beloved. That is the truth I came to believe.

Debasish Mridha

#58. What if I came here and I ended up loving it? What if, after a year, I didn't want to leave? What then? But wouldn't it be great if I loved it? Isn't that the whole point? Why bet on not loving a place? Why not take a chance and bet on happiness? I

Jenny Han

#59. We came to this world with love and hope to bloom like a flower, to beautify this garden we call earth, and spread the fragrance of happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#60. Was it better then - measuring the loss - not to know happiness at all? Better to go through life waiting for what never came, because that way you had less to mourn?

Howard Jacobson

#61. A sense of peace came over me and I must have been smiling as I fell asleep.

Harry Bernstein

#62. I came a fabulous opera. I saw that all beings have a fatality for happiness: action is not life, but a way of spending your strength, an irritation. Morality is a weakness of the brain.

Arthur Rimbaud

#63. A slow, knowing smile came over Keirah's face. Her heart filled with happiness, believing the Gwarda gypsy sitting next to her at this very moment was worthy of her beloved sister.

Madison Thorne Grey

#64. The sorrow came from those two feelings - the happiness of company, the anxiety of interrupted solitude.

Amanda Coplin

#65. The Devil and woman have been allies against God from the beginning, ever since Satan first came to the first man in the form of a snake and whispered to Adam that true happiness was not to be found in prayer but in Eve's cunt.

Joe Hill

#66. Human beings are pixels of love, trust, and kindness
We came from Milky Way, dust, and brightness.

Debasish Mridha

#67. I came. I saw the power of love. I expressed non-judgmental love. I healed. I became loved.

Debasish Mridha

#68. Their daughter came in in full evening dress, her fresh young flesh exposed (making a show of that very flesh which in his own case caused so much suffering), strong, healthy, evidently in love, and impatient with illness, suffering, and death, because they interfered with her happiness. Fyodor

Leo Tolstoy

#69. That one minute of pure happiness I felt and the heartache that came moments later is something I never want to experience again. I'm tired of grieving.

Colleen Hoover

#70. The thing he wished for most was a thing he had never wished for at all, not until he had discovered her. And it came true that night, and many nights after. A brief and shining span of happiness, it was the pivot point around which his whole life spun.

Laini Taylor

#71. I came; I saw the possibilities; I made it a reality.

Debasish Mridha

#72. he came to realize a simple truth: Working right trumps finding the right work. He didn't need to have a perfect job to find occupational happiness - he needed instead a better approach to the work already available to him.

Cal Newport

#73. The Holy Prophet Mohammed came into this world and taught us: 'That man is a Muslim who never hurts anyone by word or deed, but who works for the benefit and happiness of God's creatures. Belief in God is to love one's fellow men.'

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

#74. You had to take life as it came. It gave no quarter, spared no feelings. Limited no pain. Put no ceiling on happiness.

David Baldacci

#75. We celebrate, we create, as citizens of Shatter. We hold a bond of unending happiness. This planet, at the edge of the galaxy, is our testament to life.
Our dragons, in the sky, came from the stars. They brought many new things to explore.
From the Blessings of the Father Dragon, a poem

L'Poni Baldwin

#76. Happiness had never been like this before. Now it came like sun showers, the sun and the rain together. Happiness was happier than it had been - sharp, piercing, and snatched, like a breath while swimming in surf.

Elizabeth Knox

#77. They were two happy lovers among the crowd, and they came to suspect that love could be a feeling that was more relaxing and deep than the happiness, wild but momentary, of their secret nights.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#78. I glanced through another page in case I had missed something, and came to the description of Simon's face as he lay on the grass with his eyes closed. It gave me a stab in which happiness and misery were somehow a part of each other.

Dodie Smith

#79. I came to realize that one single human being, comprehended in his depth, who gives generously from the treasures of his heart, bestows on us more riches than Caesar or Alexander could ever conquer. Here is our kingdom, the best of monarchies, the best republic. Here is our garden, our happiness.

Ernst Junger

#80. He grinned at Sharpe. "Christ, but this is joy! What would we do for happiness if peace came?" He turned his horse clumsily, rammed his heels back, and whooped as the horse took off. "Let's go get the whores!

Bernard Cornwell

#81. Joy came always after pain.

Guillaume Apollinaire

#82. Every time I tried kissing happiness, it came very close to me and then pushed me away.

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