Happy Things Quotes - Page 2

• I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that ‘do what makes you happy’ thing in check.

  Edward Burns

  Reality, Catholic, Suffering

  FaceBook post by Edward Burns from Sep 12, 2011

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• Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

  Chaim Potok

  Tea, Afternoon Tea, Cups Of Tea

  Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• Flowers are happy things.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Flower, Reality

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• So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  People, Optimism, Challenges

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. January 28, 2013.

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• The sun just touched the morning; The morning, happy thing, Supposed that he had come to dwell, And life would be all spring.

  Emily Dickinson

  Morning, Spring, Would Be

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.146, First Avenue Editions

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• Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary.

  Libba Bray

  School, Appreciate, Understanding

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.6, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• A hug's a happy thing while a shrug's so often destructive.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Happiness, Hug, Destructive

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• False. When things change, I will be happy. True. When I am happy, things will change.

  Kyle Cease

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  FaceBook post by Kyle Cease from Mar 14, 2013

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• It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. I had left this woman in bitterness and hate, and I came back to her now with no other emotion than a sort of ruth for her great sufferings, and strong yearning to forget and forgive all injuries - to be reconciled and clasp hands in amity.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Forgiveness, Strong, Hate

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.190, Penguin

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• The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Secret, Holes, Middle

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He believed that he must, that he could and would recover the good things, the happy things, the easy tranquil things of life. He had made mistakes, but he could overlook these. He had been a fool, but that could be forgiven. The time wasted--must be relinquished. What else could one do about it? Things were too complex, but they might be reduced to simplicity again. Recovery was possible.

  Saul Bellow

  Mistake, Recovery, Simplicity

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• But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem: they might point to the catkins hanging from the empty hazel trees, or direct us to the rain descending on black earth in early spring. --- And we, who always think of happiness rising, would feel the emotion that almost baffles us when a happy thing falls.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Spring, Rain, Fall

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• You are born with the yearning arrow, my Glynna, though you are not yet fully aware of it. It is not a happy thing to possess, for nothing on earth - no goal, no person how ever beloved - will answer it. It points to the sky and to the heavens and the stars and when it cannot reach them, it must fall back to pierce your heart.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Stars, Fall, Heart

  "Darkfall: Book One Of The Legendsong". Book by Isobelle Carmody, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1998.

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• If you are interested in happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle. This is because not very many happy things happened in the lives of the three Baudelaire youngsters.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Reading, Would Be

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• We're in English class, which for most of us is an excruciating exercise in staying awake through the great classics of literature. These works - groundbreaking, incendiary, timeless - have been pureed by the curriculum monsters into a digestible pabulum of themes and factoids we can spew back on a test. Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary.

  Libba Bray

  School, Exercise, Class

  "Going Bovine". Book by Libba Bray, September 22, 2009.

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• I know that happy things and fun things eventually come to an end. But things that are scary and sad come to an end too...they always do. Even if you can't always believe that , please don't give up. Live.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Giving Up, Fun, Believe

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• In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Happy Endings, Middle

  "A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning". Book by Lemony Snicket, March 17, 2009.

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• Tis a happy thing To be the father unto many sons.

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Son

  William Shakespeare, Michael Hattaway (1993). “The Third Part of King Henry VI”, p.136, Cambridge University Press

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• With any group of people in life, sad things happen, and crazy things, and happy things. When you're in the public eye, it's just amplified, that's all.

  Margot Kidder

  Crazy, Eye, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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