You could get a book then. There was a book in the library about Holland. There were lovely foreign names in it and pictures of strangelooking cities and ships. It made you feel so happy. - James Joyce You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you. It is a public scandal the way I adore you. I have been going about for the last six months telling the whole of society that I adore you. I wonder you consent to have anything to say to me. I have no character left at all. At least, I feel so happy that I am quite sure I have no character left at all. - Oscar Wilde It's like when you're excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other times you see the same couple, and they make you so mad. And all you want is to feel happy for them because you know that if you do, then it means you're happy, too. - Stephen Chbosky Ever fee...

It's not the job of this town to make me feel happy. It's not this town's fault that I don't feel I fit in. It doesn't matter where you are in the world, because it's about where you are in your head. It's about the other world I inhabit. The world of dreams, hope, imagination, and memories. I'm happy up here, and because of that I'm happy up there too - Cecelia Ahern I just feel happy to be in America, like I said, it's the most beautiful country in the world. - Ahmed Ali Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don't have to do it, but it's here if you choose to come back to it. - Ilona Andrews David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'. - James M Barrie I could see no reason for being sad. It's just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy. - Simone De Beauvoir You get onstage and ...

Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me - I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations. - Jane Asher Foul!" yelled Jamie, who seemed extremely happy not to be the one facing a blade. "Distracting technique! Put your shirt back on right now. - Sarah Rees Brennan I'm extremely happy in my life. I consider myself to be very blessed. - Joan Collins Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old. - John Green But after that, I was extremely happy with the story and the look of the show at the beginning of season two - everything was working together. I felt like it was finished conceptually. - Joel Hodgson If there's anything about the business that I love and that I'm extremely happy about, is that my career started at that time and that I met...

At any given moment the choice to be happy is present- we just have to choose to be happy. - Steve Maraboli Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not. - Valerie Bertinelli So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference. To do the best we can and then to choose to be happy about our circumstances, whatever they may be, can bring peace and contentment. We can't direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace, and contentment, may we choose a positive attitude. - Thomas S Monson Happiness is not a feeling, it is a choice. To be happy, one must choose to be happy, not respond to a circumstance that now controls your happiness. - Joyce Meyer it was dawning on me how uphill a poet's path was, and I confessed to her that if I had to be the choice between being happy or bei...

All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind. - John Lubbock If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal. - Norman Vincent Peale

The surface of the pond was green with fallen leaves. "How could you have been happy there? I know what you thought, but Valentine was a terrible father. He killed your pets, lied to you, and I know he hit you- don't even try to pretend he didn't." A flicker of a smile ghosted across Jace's face. "Only on alternate Thursdays. - Cassandra Clare I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that's how you learn your chops. - Jon Anderson She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet. - Jane Austen She was humbled, she was grieved; she repented, though she hardly knew of what. She became jealous of his esteem, when she could no longer hope to be benefited by it. She wanted to hear of him, when there seemed the least chance of gaining intelligence. She was convinced that she...

I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing. - William James Speak to her now? But that's just why I'm afraid to speakbecause I'm happy now, happy in hope, anyway.... And then?.... But I must! I must! I must! Away with weakness! - Leo Tolstoy So I'm not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I'm happy that I have them; I think it's good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside, like anger. - Diana Ross

I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. - Jane Austen If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. No, no, let me shift for myself; and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time. - Jane Austen Look at me," John gasped. "I cannot remember the last time I allowed myself to be so happy. I smile all day long without knowing why. I climbed a bloody tree, vaulted through your window, and here I amlaughing.It's the middle of the night, and yet here I am with you. Dancing at midnight, holding perfection in my arms." -John Blackwood to Arabella Blydon - Julia Quinn When 'Desperate Housewives' ends, I think my girls will be about the kindergarten age. I will be so happy to be there for them through that huge transition. - Marcia Cross I can't imagi...

And sometimes you didn't want to know the end... because how could the end be happy? - J R R Tolkien It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end... because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing... this shadow. Even darkness must pass. SAM, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - J R R Tolkien A woman who is not happy with herself can never be happy for someone else. -Toyi Ward - Kamryn Adams I'd far rather be happy than right any day. - Douglas Adams What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day. - Douglas Adams The source of all unhappiness is other people. As soon as you learn to think of other people as noisy furniture, the sooner you will be happy. - Wally...

I suddenly wondered whether Mother might not actually be happy now, whether the sensation of happiness might not be something like faintly glittering gold sunken at the bottom of the river of sorrow. The feeling of that strange pale light when once on as exceeded all the bounds of unhappiness - if that can be called a sensation of happiness, the Emperor, my mother, and even I myself may be said to be happy now. - Osamu Dazai Make the most of every moment. Get excited about every little thing. Why not? Why not have your wonderful moment of excited anticipation? Why not be happy NOW? This is my greatest challenge, but something I'm pouring my heart into: learning how to enjoy what I have, right here, right now. Every moment is precious and although sometimes I struggle to see it, I see it more and more every day. - Bethenny Frankel I wonder if gratefulness is the bridge from sorrow to joy, spanning the chasm of our anxious striving. Freed from the burden of unbridled desires, we c...

A woman who is not happy with herself can never be happy for someone else. -Toyi Ward - Kamryn Adams You can be happy for someone else's good fortune but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck. - Jodi Picoult She shrugged. You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck. - Jodi Picoult

Americans should never come to Europe,' she said, and tried to laugh and began to cry, 'it means they never can be happy again. What's the good of an American who isn't happy? Happiness was all we had. - James Baldwin 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. - L M Montgomery If you die and i live there's no life for me back in District 12. You're my whole life. I would never be happy again. - Suzanne Collins peeta to katniss: if you die, & i live, there's no life for me at all back in district twelve, you're my whole life. I would never be happy again - Suzanne Collins Because I don't want you forgetting how different our circumstances are. If you die, and I live, there's no life for me at all back in District Twelve. You're my whole life, I would never be happy again. It's different for you. I'm n...

Don't mind me. I'm as happy as a cricket here. - Louisa May Alcott Clary grinned at Luke. "So you're not moving to Idris, I take it?" "Nah," he said. He looked as happy as she'd ever seen him. "The pizza here is terrible. - Cassandra Clare I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet. - Susan B Anthony I know I'm a bad bargain. But I'm begging you to have me anyway. Because I want a chance to make you as happy as you make me. I want to build a life with you." He fought to steady his voice. "Please come to me, Cat, because there's no surviving you. You don't have to love me back. You don't have to be mine. Just let me be yours. - Lisa Kleypas We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may. - Mary Astell We all agree that its fit...

MARCH, 1846-- I have at last got the little room I have wanted so long, and am very happy about it. It does me good to be alone, and Mother has made it very pretty and neat for me. My work-basket and desk are by the window, and my closet is full of dried herbs that smell very nice. The door that opens into the garden will be very pretty in summer, and I can run off to the woods when I like. - Louisa May Alcott Am I calm all the time? That is a question to ask my mother. I am very happy in my home. I have a good family, that gives me something extra. - Jean Alesi So if your life trades seventy years for seventy hours I have that value now and I am lucky enough to know it. And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it. - Ernest Hemingway Sometimes, I think Bill forgets that I am sixteen. But I am very happy that he does. - Stephen Chbosky I am very...

I am so happy, so in love, and so content. - Brooke Burns I am so happy to be on a show with writing I wanted to participate in. - Yancy Butler Three o'clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can't sleep, I am so happy. - Anton Chekhov Oh dear Sunday, I am so happy that I want your entire wisdom at my dinner table. - Santosh Kalwar Tammy Faye said, I am so happy that Jessica Hahn is so ugly, because now I don't feel so bad. - Jessica Hahn I am so happy that I am alive and can walk. - Etta James I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies. - Jet Li I created a production company. Right now I am so happy in my work. - Marla Maples I am so happy that you saw your epop. - Patrick O Brian And I have Julian. I found him, and he followed me. I r...

To be honest, I am not happy about all the publicity. - Jean Alesi I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me, I am not happy, help me -- like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message. - Aimee Bender I am extremely shy. I am not happy in crowds of people. - Glenn Close

By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?' - Alastair Campbell When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world - Toni Morrison

Her smile broadens, and for a moment, I feel that I recognize her. "My name will be Edith Prior," she says. "And there is much I am happy to forget. - Veronica Roth My name will be Edith Proir," she says. "And there is much I am happy to forget. - Veronica Roth Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants... - Louisa May Alcott I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride. - Alexandre Dumas Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed. - Margaret Atwood There I am, in the Grade Six class picture, smiling broadly. Happy as a clam , is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hardshelled, firmly closed. - Margaret Atwood In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison. - Derek Bailey I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the ...