Quotes About Happiness From Books

#1. Book collecting! First editions and best editions; old books and new books - the ones you like and want to have around you. Thousands of 'em. I've had more honest satisfaction and happiness collecting books than anything else I've ever done in life.

Peter Ruber

#2. What a happy woman I am, living in a garden, with books, babies, birds and flowers, and plenty of leisure to enjoy them. Sometimes I feel as if I were blest above all my fellows in being able to find happiness so easily.

Rosamunde Pilcher

#3. To sit down on a chair and read my books with all my friends at school is my right. To see each and every human being with a smile of happiness is my wish. I am Malala. My world has changed but I have not.

Malala Yousafzai

#4. There I was, clinging to the scraps of happiness that I could finally feel again: coffee and books and an afternoon with my best friend. What right did I have, when he was gone?

Emery Lord

#5. If you feel that your happiness is attached with someone....
Keep remember that the happiness never be yours.

Giridhar Alwar

#6. The thing that makes me happy is that I know that on Mars, two hundred years from now, my books are going to be read. They'll be up on dead Mars with no atmosphere. And late at night, with a flashlight, some little boy is going to peek under the covers and read The Martian Chronicles on Mars.

Ray Bradbury

#7. The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life ... The Bible ... should be read in our schools in preference to all other books because it contains the greatest portion of that kind of knowledge which is calculated to produce private and public happiness.

Benjamin Rush

#8. You would not want to be responsible for someone else's happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours!

Jennifer O'Neill

#9. When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.

Orhan Pamuk

#10. That kiss was amazing; it had all the passion and longing we had been holding onto for so long. That is when the dam finally broke for me and I started crying. I knew right then that Hunter was the only one I wanted. He was my happily ever after.

Megan Smith

#11. An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.

Augustine Birrell

#12. Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there.

Myrtle Reed

#13. Within you is everything you need; hold on to that and let go of everything else.

Darryl Diptee

#14. I read. The more you read, the more the world opens up to you... and the happier you are and more comforted you feel. It's up to you. No you is educated who cannot educate himself.

Mark Helprin

#15. There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

Anthony Trollope

#16. In an established love of reading there is a policy of insurance guaranteeing certain happiness till death.

A. Edward Newton

#17. There are thousands of books on the joy of gardening and cooking. Alas, there are only few on the joy of living.

Robert Muller

#18. Bookstore operators tell us that the books which head the bestseller list are books on peace and happiness.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#19. My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In fact, I seem not particularly inclined to write romantic love as a narrative motive or as an easy source of happiness for my characters.

Khaled Hosseini

#20. Last year, [Pope Francis] was asked about his secret to happiness. He said slow down. Take time off. Live and let live. Don't proselytize. Work for peace. Work at a job that offers basic human dignity. Don't hold on to negative feelings. Move calmly through life. Enjoy art, books and playfulness.

Timothy Egan

#21. Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortableness directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being. See what I just did there? I saved you thousands of dollars on self-help books. If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier.

Amy Poehler

#22. Happy be the reader plunged into her book who forgot the world and whom world forgot.

Gabrielle Dubois

#23. For the rest of the afternoon, Miss Bloom smiled almost as bright as the big yellow sun shining through the front picture window. Her library was filled up with people who loved books.

Augusta Scattergood

#24. I find joy in reading.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. The first step to Happiness is deciding exactly what kind of life you want. That kinda comes from experience.

I.B. Opene

#26. I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.

Paul Auster

#27. Under the pretext of study we spent our hours in the happiness of love, and learning held out to us the secret opportunities that our passion craved. Our speech was more of love than of the books which lay open before us; our kisses far outnumbered our reasoned words.

Peter Abelard

#28. Happiness is not always reading the same page in the same book. Sometimes it is just wanting to hold the others book for them to read.

Faye Hall

#29. So How Much of a THING or THINGS is Enough? And if you have EVERYTHING, have you achieved perfect HAPPINESS?

Carew Papritz

#30. When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.

Jules Renard

#31. They have a baby grand piano, but no one in the family plays. They have shelves of books they've never read, and the tension between the couples was so thick it nearly choked us.

Ruta Sepetys

#32. The Keys To Happiness
1.Finishing the Grave Digger's Handbook.
2.Escaping the ire of Santa Maria.
3.Recieving two books for Christmas.

Markus Zusak

#33. It's amazing what a good book can do. A good book and its characters can make you feel sadness, anger, happiness and so many other emotions. My plan is to deliver to you those good books and memorable characters.

Josuanne Denis-Frasier

#34. Rest, nature, books, music ... such is my idea of happiness.

Leo Tolstoy

#35. Happiness is a room full of books and a closet (or two) full of shoes.

Unattributed Author

#36. If I were flying, I would travel to a perfect place. A place with frosted cakes and beautiful flowers and excellent trees to climb and absolutely no doldrums.

Kyo Maclear

#37. Imagine what it would be like to have a bookshelf filled only with books that you really love. Isn't that image spellbinding? For someone who loves books, what greater happiness could there be?

Marie Kondo

#38. Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read.

Michael A. Stackpole

#39. Friends are like books, you learn from every one of them.

Debasish Mridha

#40. What's happiness for a reader? Be pleasantly surprised by a book from which he expected nothing.

Gabrielle Dubois

#41. Unhappiness can be like a virus spreading from one person, to the next person, to the next one and so on. When someone is mean or rude to you, do not let their unhappiness infect your own life. If you are the unhappy one, please quarantine yourself so you do not infect others!

Jennifer O'Neill

#42. Annie laughed. She had a face, a body, made not for a Paris runway but for good meals and books by the fire and laughter. She was constructed from, and for, happiness. But it had taken Annie Gamache a long while to find it. To trust it.

Louise Penny

#43. Feel-good books were ones you could put down with a smile on your face, books that made you think the world was a little crazier, stranger, and more beautiful when you looked up from them.

Katarina Bivald

#44. In books, the truth makes everything good and fine. The good prevail. The wicked are punished. There is happiness. But it's not like that really, is it?"
"No," I say. "I suppose it only makes everything known.

Libba Bray