source: George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.1919, e-artnow

topic: Men, Next, Firsts, Happy Things

You need to turn your room into a place of power. It's a good idea to have flowers around, candles, incense, you know, happy things. Make your room into a beautiful place and keep it impeccably clean.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Beautiful, Flower, Ideas, Happy Things

I like happy things, I'm really calm and peaceful. I like birds, bees, I like people. I like funny things that make me happy and gleeful... like when my teacher sucked my wee-wee in pre-school!

- Eminem

topic: Teacher, School, Funny Things, Pre School, Happy Things

I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that ‘do what makes you happy’ thing in check.

- Edward Burns

source: FaceBook post by Edward Burns from Sep 12, 2011

topic: Reality, Catholic, Suffering, Catholic Guilt, Happy Things

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

- Chaim Potok

source: Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

topic: Tea, Afternoon Tea, Cups Of Tea, Happy Things, Tea Time

Flowers are happy things.

- P. G. Wodehouse

topic: Flower, Happy Things

So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in.

- Sonia Sotomayor

source: Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. January 28, 2013.

topic: People, Optimism, Challenges, Optimism And Hope, Happy Things

The sun just touched the morning; The morning, happy thing, Supposed that he had come to dwell, And life would be all spring.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Morning, Spring, Would Be, Happy Things

Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary.

- Libba Bray

source: Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.6, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

topic: School, Appreciate, Understanding, Groundbreaking, School Districts

False. When things change, I will be happy. True. When I am happy, things will change.

- Kyle Cease

source: FaceBook post by Kyle Cease from Mar 14, 2013

topic: Happy Life, Things Change, Happy Things

It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. I had left this woman in bitterness and hate, and I came back to her now with no other emotion than a sort of ruth for her great sufferings, and strong yearning to forget and forgive all injuries - to be reconciled and clasp hands in amity.

- Charlotte Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.190, Penguin

topic: Forgiveness, Strong, Hate, Amity, Happy Things

The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Secret, Holes, Middle, Happy Things

He believed that he must, that he could and would recover the good things, the happy things, the easy tranquil things of life. He had made mistakes, but he could overlook these. He had been a fool, but that could be forgiven. The time wasted--must be relinquished. What else could one do about it? Things were too complex, but they might be reduced to simplicity again. Recovery was possible.

- Saul Bellow

topic: Mistake, Recovery, Simplicity, Happy Things

But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem: they might point to the catkins hanging from the empty hazel trees, or direct us to the rain descending on black earth in early spring. --- And we, who always think of happiness rising, would feel the emotion that almost baffles us when a happy thing falls.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

topic: Spring, Rain, Fall, Descending, Early Spring

You are born with the yearning arrow, my Glynna, though you are not yet fully aware of it. It is not a happy thing to possess, for nothing on earth - no goal, no person how ever beloved - will answer it. It points to the sky and to the heavens and the stars and when it cannot reach them, it must fall back to pierce your heart.

- Isobelle Carmody