Book Quote by Lev Grossman

It broke the spell. It's not that I stopped being happy. I was still inexplicably, utterly happy. But suddenly the happiness had implications.

— Rachel Cohn

“Happiness is a butterfly that often hovers just beyond your grasp,then suddenly alights on your shoulder,sits for a spell and moves on.”

— Peggy Toney Horton

“Happiness is a butterfly that often eludes your grasp, then suddenly alights on your shoulder, sits for a spell and moves on.”

— Peggy Toney Horton

“If we cannot flap with the butterflies of “happiness,” we must bring to life the cascades of “joy,” conjuring up the spell of its…

— Erik Pevernagie

There was always some germ of joy, some little paramecium of happiness wriggling around, waiting for a chance to get out.

— Leigh Newman

And maybe that was how it was supposed to be...Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps,was to let yourself feel…

— Kristin Hannah

There were thousands and thousands of forms of joy in the world, but that all were essentially one and the same, namely, the joy…

— Michael Ende

“Happiness is more ephemeral than thought. It can't be observed without changing its nature. Its ingredients are subtle and there is no guarantee that…

— Anne Giardini

I defy anyone to produce any evidence that the word 'happy' has ever crossed my lips. I am not now, nor have I ever…

— Larry David

I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.

— Georg Brandes

Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear. To be…

— George Santayana

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for…

— Anna Pavlova