Andrew Lang Quotes

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.

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

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

The most simple things can bring the most happiness.

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'm fascinated by simple joy.

Looking at beautiful things is what makes me the happiest.

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.

While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realise - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.

I find happiness in the tiniest things.

Joy is one part inner peace, one part giddy delight and 100% attainable.

Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.

She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!

... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.

All happiness is a form of innocence.

Feel that you are happy without any cause for happiness.

Joy is something entirely different from pleasure.

pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection.

Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.

Pleasure usually comes when called, but not happiness.

Happy! That is indefinable as far as states of being go.

We could not be happier.

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