The-handmaid-s-tale Quote by Margaret Atwood

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

— Robert Reeves

“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

“Don't think about the problems. Think about the possibilities. This could be the beginning of something amazing.”

— Barbara Freethy

“So, maybe we need to let go of solutions for a while and look instead at how we’re trying to reach them. If simply…

— Ed Halliwell

“How were we to know we were happy?”

— Margaret Atwood

“But there was, she knew, something else. Happiness, she supposed. Whatever that might be. What, exactly, she wondered, was happiness. Very positively she wanted…

— Nella Larsen

“If only we wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is difficult, since…

— Charles de Montesquieu

“I can't help thinking -- Suppose the world was made for happiness after all.”

— Elizabeth Bowen

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

— La Rochefoucauld

“Anything can happen. But almost always, just normal things happen and people have happy lives.”

— David Wroblewski

“Probably still believed that if you wished hard enough you could make the impossible happen.”

— Jacqueline Woodson

“nothing is possible.”

— Dahlia Lu