Christina Rossetti Quotes

To complain now would be kind of sad. I like the way things are going.

I don't have many sad days.

Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.

There are so many things in life that make you sad, you have to be happy.

If you turn a smiling face on the world, you've got a chance of finishing up a good-looking old person.

I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of 'Why am I so sad, why am I so depressed?' Instead, assemble thousands of pages of why you're so content.

Your heart will be shattered by sorrow if you force it to live in tomorrow's ephemeral imagination - world instead of in today's eternal reality - now.

The last few years have been my happiest. I'm happy in the years that most people are blue and sad and waiting to die. I don't feel that a bit. Smiling has a lot to do with it. You can just lift your spirits by smiling a little bit.

Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

When you wake up each morning, you can choose to be happy or choose to be sad. Unless some terrible catastrophe has occurred the night before, it is pretty much up to you. Tomorrow morning, when the sun shines through your window, choose to make it a happy day.

I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

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