„If I seem happy to you… You could never say anything that would please me more. For men are made for happiness, and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, ‘I am doing God’s will on earth.’ All the righteous, all the saints, all the holy martyrs were happy.“

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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„But also I say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it’s done right, is a kind of holiness.“
— Mary Oliver
„Dearest,I want to tell you that you have given me complete happiness. No one could have done more than you have done. Please believe that.But I know that I shall never get over this: and I am wasting your life. It is this madness. Nothing anyone says can persuade me. You can work, and you will be much better without me. You see I can't write this even, which shows I am right. All I want to say is that until this disease came on we were perfectly happy. It was all due to you. No one could have been so good as you have been, from the very first day till now. Everyone knows that.V.“
— Virginia Woolf
„I do not like the idea of happiness — it is too momentary — I would say that I was always busy and interested in something — interest has more meaning to me than the idea of happiness.“
— Georgia O'Keeffe
„If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.“
— Eleanor Roosevelt
„I belong to you. You could do anything you wanted with me and I would let you. You could ask anything of me and I'd break myself trying to make you happy.“
— Cassandra Clare
„Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.“
— Margaret Atwood
„I do not think that we have a “right” to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.“
— Marlene Dietrich