Browsing Topic Best Happy Times Quotes

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.

God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is ‘sposed to be a happy time.

When you are not separate from the creative process, time ceases to exist. You might start to feel tired and suddenly realize that much time has passed. It isn’t necessarily a happy time – and may be very difficult to start if it is a job or an obligation. But if’ you start with all the concrete needs and proceed in a thorough way – the creative process will take over and you will forget whether it is work or play. Working in the here and now is one of the most uncontaminated ways to work.

But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me.

Sometimes I heard voices muttering in my head, and a lot of the time the world seemed to smolder around its edges. but I was in a little better physical shape every day, I was getting my looks back, and my spirits were rising, and this was all in all a happy time for me. All these weirdos, and me getting a little better right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us.

When I got to the library I came to a standstill, – ah, the dear room, what happy times I have spent in it rummaging amongst the books, making plans for my garden, building castles in the air, writing, dreaming, doing nothing.

Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day? All of these carry the seeds of the same fierce mystery that we call death.

A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people – people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people– people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are a great memory-prompt, and because we tend to take photos of happy occasions, they weight our memories to the good.

This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country.

People’s lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes — pretty soon your closet is so jammed and everything so crushed you can’t find anything to wear. Help these friends when they need you; bless the years and happy times when you meant a lot to each other, but try not to have the guilts if new people mean more to you now.

Things that go on at Happy Times are very funny this year, and if you were watching last year, some of the people you saw then as basically extras emerge as real characters in their own right this season, at least to some degree.

Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown.

I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.

The dinner hour is a sacred, happy time when everyone should be together and relaxed.

I’d like the memory of me to be a happy one. I’d like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done. I’d like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways, Of happy times and laughing times and bright and sunny days. I’d like the tears of those who grieve, to dry before the sun of happy memories that I leave when life is done.

Now are the days, of humblest prayer,When consciences to God lie bare,And mercy most delights to spare.Oh hearken when we cry.Now is the season, wisely long,Of sadder thought and graver song,When ailing souls grow well and strong.Oh hearken when we cry.The feast of penance! Oh so bright,With true conversion’s heavenly light,Like sunrise after stormy night!Oh hearken when we cry.Oh happy time of blessed tears,Of surer hopes, of chast’ning fears,Undoing all our evil years.Oh hearken when we cry.Chastise us with Thy fear;Yet, Father! in the multitudeOf Thy compassions, hear!

My memories of literary agenting are of a very happy time and there are surprising reminders of it coming back now.

If the sun is shining, stand in it- yes, yes, yes. Happy times are great, but happy times pass- they have to- because time passes. The pursuit of happiness is more elusive; it is life-long, and it is not goal-centred. What you are pursuing is meaning- a meaningful life… There are times when it will go so wrong that you will be barely alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else’s terms.

The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.

A really interesting and happy time was when I first went to Florence as a student and studied Italian. I was living in a pensione on an allowance of £40 a month, which was princely. I did a lot of work and enjoyed myself immensely.

Running around when I was a kid was a really happy time; a time when getting home for dinner or for sleep were my only responsibilities.

You can be sad recalling sad times, but if you really want to be sad, recall happy times.

… Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.)