Lemony Snicket, The End

It is a curious thing, but as one travels the world getting older and older, it appears that happiness is easier to get used to than despair. The second time you have a root beer float, for instance, your happiness at sipping the delicious concoction may not be quite as enormous as when you first had a root beer float, and the twelfth time your happiness may be still less enormous, until root beer floats begin to offer you very little happiness at all, because you have become used to the taste of vanilla ice cream and root beer mixed together. However, the second time you find a thumbtack in your root beer float, your despair is much greater than the first time, when you dismissed the thumbtack as a freak accident rather than part of the scheme of a soda jerk, a phrase which here means "ice cream shop employee who is trying to injure your tongue," and by the twelfth time you find a thumbtack, your despair is even greater still, until you can hardly utter the phrase "root beer float" without bursting into tears. It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.

Happiness Quotes And Sayings by Lemony Snicket, The End

Dan Wells, Partials

Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't. It's like learning a foreign language: You can think about the words all you want, but you'll never be able to speak it until you suck up your courage and say them out loud.

Happiness Quotes And Sayings by Dan Wells, Partials

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

Happiness Quotes And Sayings by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Stephen Richards

There is nothing around me but money, money, money.

Happiness Quotes And Sayings by Stephen Richards

Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential.

Happiness Quotes And Sayings by Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Rodolfo Costa, Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes

Learn to love someone when they least deserve it, because that is when they need your love most.

Happiness Quotes And Sayings by Rodolfo Costa, Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes

Jay Asher, The Future of Us

You need to figure out what you want, Josh. If that means you need to swim against the tide to get it, at least youre aiming for something that could make you very happy.

Happiness Quotes And Sayings by Jay Asher, The Future of Us

Boyd K. Packer

Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.

Happiness Quotes And Sayings by Boyd K. Packer

Stephen Richards

It sometimes takes a state of solitude to bring to mind the real power of companionship.

Happiness Quotes And Sayings by Stephen Richards

Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.

Happiness Quotes And Sayings by Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

Ethan Hawke

If you can channel the best part of you that is bigger than yourself, where it’s not about your ego and not about getting ahead, then you can have fun and you aren’t jealous of others. You see other people's talent as another branch of your own. You can keep it rooted in joy. Life is long and there are plenty of opportunities to make mistakes. The point of it all is to learn.

Happiness Quotes And Sayings by Ethan Hawke

Ian McEwan, Saturday

There's a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in these streets, and of a general state of longing, a hunger for life to begin that from this distance seems like happiness.

Happiness Quotes And Sayings by Ian McEwan, Saturday

Kresley Cole, Lothaire

When she absently worried her bottom lip with one of her adorable little fangs, he sighed.
The Enemy of Old fucking sighed.
Dear gods, it’d finally happened to him.
Happiness.
Then his own fangs sharpened.I will kill anyone who tries to take this feeling away from me.

Happiness Quotes And Sayings by Kresley Cole, Lothaire

Ellen Hopkins

Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.

Happiness Quotes And Sayings by Ellen Hopkins

Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One

It was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she'd never been able to imagine how it would sound coming from someone else. But, somehow, Logan made it sound just right.

Happiness Quotes And Sayings by Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One