C. S. Lewis Quotes

Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers

After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true.

From tiny, tiny waves of joy, one gets to the ocean of happiness, which is called bliss.

It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.

The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.

Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness - never a list.

It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

I love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent.

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Everything is about looking for happiness and God. That was a sentiment shared by my dear friend Ronald Reagan.

Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it, you're not even aware; only afterwards do you know you were happy.

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.

I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm standing on grass, and it's raining, and I'm with the person I love, and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to.

Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.

The idea of singing and dancing throughout my life and finding that bliss is something I wanted to express and explore within myself and hopefully spread that idea to other people.

What better is there to sigh for than happiness, yesterday's or tomorrow's.