Daniel Pinkwater Quotes

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

I'm fascinated by simple joy.

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

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.

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Simply enjoy life and the great pleasures that come with it.

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.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.

I'm just enjoying my life at the moment.

Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.

The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

The most simple things can bring the most happiness.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

Happiness is very simple and minimal.

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

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.

I wouldn't trade the experiences I've had over the past 36 years for anything.

I don't want to wake up and not truly be enjoying my life and these amazing things around me.

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'm talking about enjoying and finding pleasure and interest and happiness and curiosity every moment.

Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it.