Happiness Quote by Paul Torday

“that life was full of small comforts which were all the time making for happiness, and that we did not sufficiently appreciate them.”

— Katrina Avilla Munichiello

“...he liked his transcendence out in plain sight where he could keep an eye on it -- say, in a nice stained-glass window --…

— Neal Stephenson

“As he put in his studs he realized that he was enjoying life as he would probably never enjoy it again. Everything was hallowed…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He'd read that once in everyone's life there was somebody who touched a spot so deep, so precious, that the mind always retreated, in…

— Anonymous

“...there seemed some necessity of taking all or nothing; it was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Periodically throughout his life, he would seek comfort in his troubles by lurching into the wilderness, only to find more loneliness there and end…

— Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith ·

“In a person's lifetime there may be not more than half a dozen occasions that he can look back to in the certain knowledge…

— Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

“And so when the whole man will be outside himself, and happy for no reason except that he is so outside himself, he will…

— Desiderius Erasmus

“Normally he was fond of most things. He was a good-natured and cheerful young man, who liked life and the great majority of those…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“He raged at his farm, forced it, added to it, drilled and trimmed, and his boundaries extended. He took no rest, no recreation, and…

— John Steinbeck

“We were bullied, broken, built up, bronzed and polished. We grew dull, dusty, doubtful, dark, and forgetful. Yet we still know that we can…

— Antonia Perdu

“Like all solitary persons he had invested friendship with a divine glamour: he imagined that the people he passed on the street, laughing together…

— Thornton Wilder