Enough Quote by Elizabeth Strout

“They were happy times, although we did not know it then. We never know happiness until it is gone.”

— Judith Arnopp

“Perhaps it was not an easy thing, to be so entirely happy. Perhaps it was actually quite a fearful state to live in--the knowledge…

— Jo Baker

“Joyful people are participants. They don’t miss the moments. They turn moments into memories.”

— Mike Bechtle

“Theoretically he knew that life is possible, may even be pleasant, without joy, without passionate griefs. But it had never occurred to him that…

— Willa Cather

“And they lived ever after, whether they were happy about it or not.”

— Allyse Near

“back when they were young and, if not hopeful, at least more joyful in their fatalism.”

— James S.A. Corey

“There was a willful calm and happiness. I think people can decide to be happy. Maybe that was it.”

— Robert Reeves

“These people were smiling because they were where they wanted to be. They understood that life is too short for what-ifs and complications. Life,…

— Brad Herzog

“Oh, you knew exactly what I meant. Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And one of our consuming diversions…

— Lionel Shriver

“It is a kind of happiness to know just how unhappy we could be.”

— La Rochefoucauld

“They had seen life, and done deeds, and lived romances, but they did not know it.”

— Jack London

“So each person knows you according to what has happened in their lives, the losses as well as the great joy.”

— Bahauddin