Michael Cunningham Quotes

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

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

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

There is a better place, the hard but joyful work beyond struggle, beyond the shadow of a doubt. It is our real home, the long-remembered future when everything worked and things made sense.

I never in a million bazillion trillion years imagined that my life would have this many layers of love and richness.

I dream to be happy.

How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we're really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?

Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!

Nothing is going to make you happier in your life than giving

A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.

Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.

The difference between someone who is struggling and someone who has a fabulous life comes down to one thing -- love. Those who have a great life imagine what they love and want, and they feel the love of what's they're imagining more than other people.

I want to convey how beautiful it is to close your eyes and dream. And then to open them and make that dream a reality.

I hope I get the bliss. And I know I'm going to have to work for it. But I've got to say, really, I have no kind of, can I say "secular religiosity"? ... I don't have a denominational sight.

Don't give up on your own happy-evers.

If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it.

Everyday God gives us a moment in which it is possible to change everything that makes us unhappy.

For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.

There is just this for consolation: an hour here or there, when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined , though everyone but children (and perhaps even they) knows these hours will inevitably be followed by others, far darker and more difficult. Still, we cherish the city, the morning, we hope, more than anything, for more. Heaven only knows why we love it so.

Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.