Sue Townsend Quotes

The sanest thing in this world is love.

Happiness is not a luxury. It is a necessity. When we are happy, we are in the best possible place to be good to ourselves and those we love.

she had given me a piece of what made her life sane.

The first sure symptom of a mind in health Is rest of heart and pleasure felt at home.

If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.

I'm happy, and I think being happy keeps you looking young.

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life.

A few years ago, I would let it get to me. But now, as long as my mum and my sister and my kids don't have any stress, I'm good.

I want to keep my sanity.

If you can't trust, it's harder to love and if you can't love it's harder to be happy.

To me, it's like happiness is about happiness, but happiness is a fight.

If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is on the road toward misfortune, misery and destruction.

If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health.

Knowing love or the hope of knowing love is the anchor that keeps us from falling into that sea of despair.

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

Love is the most important healing power there is.

Love is joy. Don't convince yourself that suffering is a part of it.

Have you ever known anyone who was happy? And was still in his right mind, I mean.

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.

Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.

And love makes one calmer about many things, and in that way, one is more fit for one's work.

The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel