"Because he wanted nothing from her; this was a generous, expansive feeling, unattached to the possibility of gratification; it was the simple happiness that came from knowing that one particular person was alive in the world."

Jo Baker
Kommentare 0
Noch keine Kommentare

Sei der Erste, der seine Gedanken teilt!

Bitte logge dich ein, um mitzudiskutieren.

Das könnte dir auch gefallen

"All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion."
Richard von Krafft-Ebing
"The Smile won Matthew extra time before bed, extra Christmas pudding, extra anything he wanted. Adults were helpless to resist The Smile.Matthew gave his all to this particular smile. Butter melted. Birds sang. People slipped about dazed amid the butter and birdsong."
Cassandra Clare
"In the midst of life’s ups and down, beginnings and endings, let us live our life, let us be joyful, let us be happy."
Anonymous
"A joyful life, life of contentment."
Anonymous
"My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'."
Sally Hawkins
"This is one of the many paradoxes of happiness: we seek to control our lives, but the unfamiliar and the unexpected are important sources of happiness."
Gretchen Rubin
"Have a variety of interests. ... These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live not only longest but happiest."
George Matthew Allen
"With soap baptism is a good thing."
Robert G. Ingersoll
"The one thing most important to anything else is to be happy."
Anonymous
"Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. It's the best thing about being alive."
Michael Sheen
"Yes - it was happiness she still wanted, and the glimpse she had caught of it made everything else of no account. One by one she had detached herself from the baser possibilities , and she saw that nothing now remained to her but the emptiness of renunciation. 'The House of Mirth."
Edith Wharton
"Anything can happen. But almost always, just normal things happen and people have happy lives."
David Wroblewski
"Thus heaven's gift to us is this: That habit takes the place of bliss."
Alexander Pushkin
"I don't eat fast food often, but I love tacos. I could write prophetically about how perfect the taco is."
Ken Baumann
"Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father."
Barry Sanders