Sarah Dessen Quotes

I like having peace and quiet in my life, and I am perfectly happy in my relationships.

I can't imagine a more ideal life.

I live a very nice life. I have a wonderful time. But it's not lived drawing on a full level. I'm relaxed, cool, and enjoying it.

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life.

Life is magically beautiful. And it brings you what is perfect.

The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we're very lucky.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

But all the money in the world cannot make you happy either, so there has to be a balance.

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

I know that. I'm having a ball. I'm not slap happy. I'm just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of things that have eluded me for quite a few years. And they're back and they're thriving.

Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.

I live the perfect life.

When things are really great, it just means everything's in it's place.

For me, having it all - if one wants to define it at all - is the magical time when what you want and what you have match up.

Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness.

True happiness springs from moderation.

And then some days you wake up and everything's perfect

I don't ever feel like I've had a moment where I am like, "There it is; perfect and holy in all ways."

Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own . way, perfect.

Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?