Happinesses Quotes

#1. Resisting and avoiding pain sucks energy-and time. The more you let yourself feel those minute-and-a-half hells, the quicker you'll start feeling those minute-and-a-half happinesses.

Leigh Newman

#2. Happiness, eternal or temporal, is not the reward that mankind seeks, Happinesses are but his wayside companions. His soul is in the journey and in the struggle.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#3. What I think is important is to appreciate every bit of happiness that comes your way, not to wait to celebrate the big happiness when it comes, but the more frequent little happinesses.

Charlotte Chandler

#4. How mysterious it is, to be in love. For you can be in love with one who knows nothing of you. Perhpas our greatest happinesses spring from such longings-being in love with one who is oblivious of you.

Joyce Carol Oates

#5. When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

Joyce Brothers

#6. Every person has a right to the small things, you see? The little happinesses. After all, those are the ones that make life most worth living. It's what we're fighting for.

Kim Harrison

#7. The burdens of childhood are as hard to bear as the crosses that weigh us down later in life, while the happinesses of childhood are tame compared with those of our maturer years.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#8. And I knew, too, that to live a life like Walter Cole's - a life almost mundane in the pleasure it derived from small happinesses and the beauty of the familiar, but uncommon in the value it attached to them - was something to be envied.

John Connolly

#9. He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.

Victor Hugo

#10. Still, it's better to believe that some high purpose guides our steps than to think that nothing matters except our own small miseries and happinesses.

Orson Scott Card

#11. You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

Aldous Huxley

#12. Domesticity was meat and drink to Mouse, and she liked taking care of people. She had done it for so long that it had become a habit with her.

Helen Kieran Reilly

#13. He was colossal (apparently they felt behemoth was easier to spell).

Emily Devenport

#14. Don't give life to regrets and live on ifs and only, when you can no more unscramble an egg than change the past.

Nadia Janice Brown

#15. Nobody's really happy. And as soon as society realises that you can't trust anyone and that hardship is a natural part of existence, the sooner the therapists will realise that they are worthless! Sorry. They have worth deficit disorder!

Christopher Titus

#16. Sometimes there's a disjoint between what works on the page and what works with visual story telling.

Duncan Jones

#17. The Sabbath is the day on which we learn the art of surpassing civilization.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#18. Least said soonest meanded

Charlaine Harris

#19. When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then learning and love and decency prevail. When the preponderance of human beings choose power, greed, and indifference to suffering, the world is filled with war, poverty, and cruelty.

Mary Doria Russell

#20. Well, my take was people of Minnesota, these are good people. They're in many ways more generous than other parts of the country. They're better educated than other parts of the country.

Peter Agre

#21. I meet people who neglect career. Their lives aren't centered at all. They don't have much money. They have this spaced-out look in their eyes. Their chances for enlightenment are very small, unless they change the way they live.

Frederick Lenz