“Happiness is waking up, looking at the clock and finding that you still have two hours left to sleep.”— Charles M. Schulz, goodreads.com
“It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.”— Quotemadness, quotemadness.com
“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”— Orhan Pamuk, amazon.com
“Did you know that chocolate contains a property that triggers the release of endorphins. It gives one the feeling of being in love.”— Roald Dahl, amazon.com
“Love what you do and do what you love. Don’t listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.”— Ray Bradbury, goodreads.com
“Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.”— Tyler Perry, amazon.com
“Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.”— Nathaniel Hawthorne, amazon.com
“Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few that hold hostage our capacity for happiness, whom we could recognize by their smell alone and whom we would rather die than be without.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Life isn’t meant to exist in a narrow color spectrum of perpetual happiness. That’s a movie. It’s not reality. Experience all your vivid, fiery, watery emotions. Give yourself permission to be full bodied. You’re peeling. Revealing. It’s a messy, magnificent process.”— Kris Carr, kriscarr.com
“I think it’s foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary—you’re happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life. Happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.”— Georgia O’Keeffe, goodreads.com
“And I want to be happy. Like, seventy to eighty percent of the time. I want to be actively, thoughtfully happy.”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com
“And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are.”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com