Quotes about Happiness

What a snapshot is to your life, your life is to eternity, so wouldn't it be nice if eternity captured you smiling?

We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.

Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time.

The happiest memories are of moments that ended when they should have.

You can't postpone sorrow, so why would you postpone happiness?

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

A man finds love and is satisfied. A woman finds love and insists on turning it into happiness.

I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.

I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!

But pearls are for tears, the old legend says, Gilbert had objected. I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as sad. My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyes—when Marilla told me I might stay at Green Gables—when Matthew gave me the first pretty dress I ever had—when I heard that you were going to recover from the fever. So give me pearls for our troth ring, Gilbert, and I'll willingly accept the sorrow of life with its joy. -Anne

The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr, remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. It is the most contented sound in the world.

Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned.