„Dear me! how happy and good we’d be, if we had no worries!“

— Louisa May Alcott

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„Lydgate opened the sort of letter…”My dear husband I very good…I come in flying ship…we be very happy…love.” It was as satisfactory a letter as he had ever received from a woman.“
— Anthony Burgess
„Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it we do suddenly realize — sometimes with astonishment — how happy we had been.“
— Nikos Kazantzakis
„While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it we do suddenly realize — sometimes with astonishment — how happy we had been.“
— Nikos Kazantzakis
„Americans should never come to Europe,' she said, and tried to laugh and began to cry, 'it means they never can be happy again. What's the good of an American who isn't happy? Happiness was all we had.“
— James Baldwin
„How were we to know we were happy?“
— Margaret Atwood
„I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old.“
— Sylvia Plath
„It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.“
— Henry Miller