#happines

Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star. ↗

— Laini Taylor

#happiness #young-adult #comfort

Happiness is what matters, feeling alive-not art or knowledge or money. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#happiness #knowledge #money #art

I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then? ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#taking-chances #dreams

Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#past

Memory is the happiness of being alone. ↗

— Lois Lowry

#memory #alone

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#happiness #woman #woman

Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it. ↗

— Raymond Carver

#poetry #unexpected

What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#fall

There are hours for rest, and hours for wakefulness; nights for sobriety and nights for drunkenness—(if only so that possession of the former allows us to discern the latter when we have it; for sad as it is, no human body can be happily drunk all the time). ↗

— Roman Payne

#drunkenness #happiness #payne #rest #roman

Meeting you was not the first day of the rest of my life; it was the first day of the BEST of my life. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#in-love #life #love #relationship #experience