Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

One happy day for every falling leaf you catch. Sam's voice was low.

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

A shaft of sunlight at the end of a dark afternoon, a note of music, and the way the back of a baby’s neck smells if it’s mother keeps it tidy,” answered Henry. “Correct,” said Stuart. “Those are the important things. You forgot one thing, though. Mary Bendix, what did Henry Rackmeyer forget?” “He forgot ice cream with chocolate sauce on it,” said Mary quickly.

One of the greatest joys in life is watching a child laugh

It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.

Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It's the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps.

I'm happy to be reminded that an ordinary day full of nothing but nothingness can make you feel like you've won the lottery.

To see the ball, to run after it, makes me the happiest man in the world.

I love spending time with my friends and family. The simplest things in life give me the most pleasure: cooking a good meal, enjoying my friends.

There's no better feeling than making your little girls laugh.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.

Never had I had so many friends and so much fun as I did in the projects.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

I don't have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields.

For me, the small joys of life make me happy.

My favourite memory was the first time my mum bought me a bubble blower. I must have been the happiest girl in the world that day. I was all over those bubbles like a moth to a flame.

Every time I score, I celebrate like the kid I was playing in the park.

The universe is in the habit of making beauty. There are flowers and songs, snowflakes and smiles, acts of great courage, laughter between friends, a job well done, the smell of fresh baked bread. Beauty is everywhere.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.

I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.

A multitude of small delights constitute happiness

It was like the way you wanted sunshine on Saturdays, or pancakes for breakfast. They just made you feel good.

Sometimes people will think, I need to have pre-sanctioned spiritual joy. Getting joy from my contemplative meditation practice or getting joy from reading Thich Nhat Hahn books. Those things can be joyful but I think it’s the small, simple joys of playing with dogs or having sex with someone you love or going for a walk outside, stuff that we tend to ignore.

Everything was chocolate ice cream and kisses and wind.