The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
To live in the midst of suffering, which we do, we do, amid distress, and to keep some equilibrium in the midst of that - that would be happiness enough.
There's a happiness that comes from writing that I won't live without.
Some people think happiness is a luxury, but it's a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life.
Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.
I used to say that 'happy' was like 'lucky,' kind of imaginary. But now that I'm married and have children, I find that happiness is a real space.
Happiness is a light, an atmosphere, an illumination. It sets a personality. I always feel that it is a creation that is difficult for some and easy for others, but essentially an achievement, never an accident.
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.