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Was it the happiest day of our lives? Probably not, if only because the truly happy days tend not to involve so much organisation, are rarely so public or so expensive. The happy ones sneak up, unexpected.
— David Nicholls, Us
Everybody should have one goal: to be happy.
— Debasish Mridha
Life has a purpose and that is to be happy, and happiness is the fruits of our love and labor.
— Debasish Mridha
Nobody can make you happy or unhappy except you.
— Debasish Mridha
Because every time you see them happy you remember how sad they're going to be. And it breaks your heart. Because what's the point in them being happy now if they're going to be sad later. The answer is, of course, because they a re going to be sad later.
— Steven Moffat, Doctor Who: The Shooting Scripts
Don't try to be happy, just be happy. Because your happiness does not depend on others. Be the reason for your own happiness.
— Vishwas Chavan
They all want to be happy. They all think they should be happy. And they’re quick to trot out their most cherished document and point to where they were promised “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” But you’ll find that though they all parrot that little phrase, they think none too hard about that word “pursuit”. To follow, to chase, to inquire, to hunt, to seek. To track in order to overtake and capture. This they don’t do. Instead, having been offered a promise of happiness, they progress to a feeling of entitlement for happiness, then make the leap that happiness should, therefore, be easily won, automatic. There’s too much wrong in there to even scratch at that!
— Geoffrey Wood
The best gift you can give yourself is to give to someone else
— Manuel Corazzari
Many want to take care their wallet but I think that is not so important if You are not Happy
— Jan Jansen
Just a perfect day, problems all left alone.
— Lou Reed, Perfect Day
So your final assignment is a simple one but it’s going to take forever: be happy. No matter what it takes. No matter how embarrassing it might be sometimes, no matter who or what you might have to forgive, no matter how hideous the color of the hat that makes you smile, be happy.
— Beth Harbison, Chose the Wrong Guy, Gave Him the Wrong Finger
The life is all about sharing a little part of your life to make others happy, to became happy.
— Harsh Singh
Sales is my Religion and Customer is my God and I Worship Him, The only thing is that my God is not very happy n generous always.
— honeya
The first step in becoming a truly happy person is to make peace with your life. The second step will be to spread that peace into your environment.
— Gracia Hunter
Own your happiness and let people understand that they have to own theirs. If you make it your job to make people happy, you have made it your job to keep people happy.
— Saji Ijiyemi
After six long hours of driving and three rest stops, Tiger pulls up to a snow-topped, metal speaker box just outside the State Penitentiary's first gate in Walla Walla. As he rolls down his window and snow flies in his face, Joshua starts begging for a Happy Meal.I turn around, snapping at him. "This ISN'T MCDONALDS and YOU AREN'T HUNGRY. NOW SHUT UP BRAT."A loud scratchy masculine voice blasts out of the speaker. "CAN I HELP YOU?"Tiger leans out the window, as he answers- We're here to visit Raven Chandler."HAVE YOU BEEN HERE BEFORE?""Yes sir. I've been here A LOT." "WHERE'S HIS MOTHER?""I don't know.. I haven't seen her in months.""NOT THE PRISONER'S MOTHER. THE BRAT IN THE BACK SEAT OF YOUR JEEP.""Oh- HIM-" As he turns, smiling and sticking his tongue out at Joshua, I lean towards his window to answer the guard's question. "SHE'S IN VEGAS, SIR. I'M BABYSITTING. HE'S MY GODSON." When the speaker remains disturbingly silent for far too long, I continue. "HE'S A GOOD BOY SIR. HE WON'T BE ANY TROUBLE- I SWEAR." "THAT'S RIGHT," Tiger said. "HE SWEARS ON THE LITTLE BRAT'S MOTHER'S GRAVE.
— Giorge Leedy, Uninhibited From Lust To Love
A happy birthday is measured not in the amount of gifts one gets, but in the amount one is loved.
— Todd Stocker
And since he was seeing more and more people who were unhappy for no apparent reason, he was becoming more and more tired, and even a little unhappy himself. He began to wonder if he was in the right profession, whether he was happy with life, whether he wasn't missing out on something. And then he felt very afraid because he wondered whether these unhappy people were contagious.
— François Lelord, Hector and the Search for Happiness
Eat Ice Cream. Read Books. Be Happy.
— Carew Papritz
I can't force your lips to smile, but I can show them how easily mine do.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Perfection is an illusion. Allow yourself room to make mistakes and permission to be happy regardless of outcome.
— Dawn Gluskin
Sometimes, people you value the most may appreciate all the things you do for them. but that doesn't mean they value you as much you value them. you sacrifice for them and give them all the best because you want them to be happy and you believe they deserve it. You understand and accept them for everything that they are. There are times that you'll ran short and would fail to be at your best and they may take it againts you. you'll have your own share of your weaknesses and flaws and they may not understand you and accept you. You may have been lost at times and they may not look for you or care for you and that's okay. that's the thing about giving. you give without expecting, you give without regrets and you give whole heartedly and freely. For God will always bless you with more than what you give. and it's already fulfilling to see them somehow smile and became complete and still thankful because you did something good for them and that's all that matters.
— Cristopher Capistrano
Don’t take life too seriously! Nobody gets out alive anyway. Smile. Be goofy. Take chances. Have fun. Inspire.
— Dawn Gluskin
Open your heart! Even in trying times. Relax. Breathe. Allow. Feel lighter, happier, and at peace.
— Dawn Gluskin
If you want to be happy, be wary of focusing on past events and do your best to live in the present.
— Roy  Bennett
I'm not the type of guy that will make you happy. I'm the type of guy that will make you forget how unhappy we all are.
— James Karrigan
Night is my time...am not a vampire but i am a Night Rider....!
— Nadeem v Abdu
When the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it, because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.
— Rachel Cohn, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
Don't think, just feel it. I know you do; I can see it on your face.
— Megan   Smith, Trying Not to Love You
Happy is the man who enjoy warmth of the sun and refresh in the breeze, who is secure within and say I have lived to-day.
— Kishore Bansal
As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups
everyone who terrifies you is sixy-five percent water, and everyone you love is made of stardust, and I know sometimes you cannot even breathe deeply, and the night sky is no home, and you have cried yourself to sleep enough times that you are down to your last two percent, but nothing is infinite, not even loss. you are made of the sea and the stars and one day you are going to find yourself again.
— Finn Butler
They asked a wise man: Why don’t we ever hear you backbiting and slandering?He said: I’m still not happy with myself to start with others.
— Ahmad Musa Jibril
A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
— Gregory Benford, Shipstar
I had this dream about you last night. We were still married. I was giving you a haircut, like I always did, being careful to trim around the scar on the back of your head. I’m sorry I sometimes forgot it and left you with a bald spot. And, I’m sorry we didn’t work out. But you look pretty happy on Instagram.
— Crystal Woods, Dreaming is for lovers
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— David Chiles
Happy is very abstract, you can't touch it.
— Julius Veal
This is what I chose. This is it." I look over Robert's shoulder. The Dauntless guards seem to have finished examining the truck. The bearded man gets back into the driver's seat and closes the door behind him. "Besides, Robert. The goal of my life isn't just...to be happy." "Wouldn't it be easier if it was, though?" he says
— Veronica Roth, Divergent
You are the only person who can make you happy and whole. You do not have another half out there waiting to be discovered.
— Raphael Zernoff, I Am
When I write, my soul sings.
— Melissa Marsh
If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that.
— Gisele Bundchen
And they lived ever after, whether they were happy about it or not.
— Allyse Near, Fairytales for Wilde Girls
Happiness is the anticipation of future happines.
— Anna Carey, Eve
All bad things, like good things, must end.
— Nihar Sharma, The Battlefield Flower
The happiest people are not the ones with the best or the most things, but those who most appreciate what they have.
— Oliver Gaspirtz
But I was - not quite happy. Pending happy. I knew this was not really my life
—  it was a borrowed life. One that I was temporarily wearing until I could sort out my own.
A good wife keeps you happy in bed, but a better wife keeps you happier even out of the bed.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
So many times we have told ourselves that we are not good enough. So many times the world has told us too. It is in those times that we must find ourselves and do the best we can. You and I today, let’s prove the world wrong.
— Nihar Sharma, The Battlefield Flower
Anyone who recommends attention to the moment as a prescription for grateful wonder is only telling half the truth. To be happy one must pay attention, but to be unhappy one must also have paid attention.
— Philip Lopate
That awkward moment when you realize someone was actually home the whole time you were singing on the tops of your lungs.
— Kasey Collin P. Dumdum
Don't be happy at me.
— Jeffrey Brown, Kids Are Weird: And Other Observations from Parenthood
I believe in happy endings, and i feel this movie has advanced long enough.
— Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook
what a life without a smile, so show some life smile
— Futty-fuze
By all of your beauty I am so inspired. Your love has baptized me by fire.
— India Arie
You more than anyone else dederve to be loved and happy. Do not remain in any relationship that robs you of those two things.
— Nancy Arroyo Ruffin, Letters to My Daughter: A Collection of Short Stories and Poems about Love, Pride, and Identity
the biggest reward of a lifetime is finishing day after day with a smile in you face.
— Nuno Rosa
happy to see me and unhappy to see me at the same time
— David Levithan, Every Day
Not every one of us are born or made free of our own prisons to the extent of ourselves.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
Understanding of reality is the main key of happiness :)
— Arya vidhan
Everyone is beautiful and talented in their own special way. Some people can sing, dance, play instruments, teach, and more. You may not be in the hall of fame, but you possess the ability to inspire others. Recognize your talents and continue to be creative. Share your beautiful gifts with the world
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Perhaps he still hopes. If there’s any justice in the Gods’ injustice, then may they let us keep our dreams, even when they’re impossible, and may our dreams be happy, even when they’re trivial....Every dream is the same dream, for they’re all dreams. Let the Gods change my dreams, but not my gift for dreaming.
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
I smile broadly, feeling as warm and full as the sun.
— Georgia Clark, Parched
What this world needs now… more balloons and clowns
— David W. Earle
Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man.
— Clarence Darrow
Happiness is found in the simplest of things. Happiness is found in gratitude, in a kept promise, in a good conversation, in love, in friendship, in an achieved goal, in a fond memory; in all the simple magnificence of life.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Free time was the most precious time, when you should be doing what you loved, or at least slowing down enough to remember what made your life worthwhile and happy.
— Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter
Happiness surrounds those who are happy.
— N.N. Light, Princess of the Light
It's okay to be crazy as long as you keep writing and are happy.
— Lori Lesko
The economy is getting tough yet we all needs to be happy. It may be difficult to get a job yet we needs to be happy. We may not have money in our pocket yet we needs to be happy so what can you offer to make someone happy even when you don't have a job, money or gifts to offer. Just Smile.....
— Anthony Iwuchukwu
Being happy isn't necessarily about getting there, it's how you get there.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
The type of love that makes you want to laugh out loud—scream a bit—run in circles—and then repeat? Yeah that’s how I felt about Wes. Totally. Out. Of. Control. Giddiness
— Rachel Van Dyken, Fearless
...but I like who I became just fine. That's the way life is. We all try to make something out of our lives, and some of us are just luckier than others.
— Jimmy Buffett
I am content when writing short stories.
— Sarah Mazucci
Don’t focus on outward means of satisfaction if you want to be happy.
— Trebor Healey, A Horse Named Sorrow
Success is not measured on what you earn, it is how you manage to be happy, benevolent and contented with your life.
— Sherwin Salinas
Have while you write!
— Sarah Mazucci
I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.
— Charlie Chaplin
I’m glad you’re quitting the bar.""You are?""Yeah. I’ve never liked you working there, and I miss you at the weekend.""Why didn’t you say anything?""Because you seemed happy. It’s sort of my life mission to make sure you stay that way," he teased.
— Samantha Young, Castle Hill
You shouldn't look too far to find people to care about or people who will care about you. Because if you stop looking, the people who do care will come looking for you.
— Emma Blackery
Don't ever be afraid to show who you really are, because as long as you are happy with yourself, no one else's opinion matters.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
Losing your virginity is a lot like when you find out that Santa doesn’t exist… First you’re slightly disappointed, and then you’re happy because you’re in on the secret
— Ben Mitchell
No one does. No one really knows how to be happy. You just get close, sometimes. That’s all I want – just to be close.
— Robert Jackson Bennett, American Elsewhere
What would you rather be, Jackie? Angry mad or crazy mad? I think I'd rather be crazy mad, because you can be crazy and still happy.
— Clare Vanderpool, Navigating Early
Not one idiot in a thousand has been entirely refractory to treatment, not one in a hundred has not been made more happy and healthy; more than thirty per cent have been taught to conform to social and moral law, and rendered capable of order, of good feeling, and of working like the third of a man; more than forty per cent have become capable of the ordinary transactions of life under friendly control, of understanding moral and social abstractions, of working like two-thirds of a man.
— Edouard Séguin
There are situations where the best solution still doesn't make everyone happy. The trick is understanding what's best.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
All Advertising is essentially a promise of future happiness.
— Suleman Abdullah
Keep people in your life who truly love you, motivate you, and make you happy. If you know people who do none of these things, let them go.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
Tonight, I decided to take a stroll down to my local liquor store. Maybe I’ll find a refreshment to wash down this full moon. I hate showing up & the clerk fucking knows my name, perhaps because I’m a regular. Anyways got my shit, left…barely covering the tax. Took the long way home; to get away from that haunting typewriter. Sat down at some park bench, as I started to open my poison; A memory rushed into me. A empty bottle of Jack Daniel’s under the Christmas tree. I thought my dad would want another drink, so started to pour my bottle into the dirt & cried.
— Brandon Villasenor, I Can't Stop Drinking About You
The most #happy is he to whom #ALLAH has given a good #wife.
— Ali R.A
If you want to be happy you have to work to make it happen. You can't just wish for it and you can't put it in the hands of other people.
— Michael Buckley, The Everafter War
‎"We shouldn't wait to be happy until we reach some future point, only to discover that happiness was already available--all the time!
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Holy shadows of the dead, I am not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people to fight one another. I do not feel happy for this victory of mine. On the contrary, I would be glad, brothers, if I had all of you standing here next to me, since we are united by the same language, the same blood and the same vi
— Alexander the Great
Only one wish I have, and that is to die a happy man.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Flavour your life in such a way that anyone who thinks he or she is biting or back-biting you, will rather take smiles away unexpectedly and with surprises.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Fundamental rule in your life, is to know what your deserve in life and getting what you deserve. That's winning always.
— Jubin Jomon
And if sometimes, late at night in bed, I questioned whether or not I truly was insane, I told myself that it didn't matter. I was too happy to care.
— Jessica Verday, The Haunted
Wherever you are, you must be very happy; because I am fasting for your happiness forever
— M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry
Who the hell cares about what anybody else thinks? Just look into your heart and do whatever the hell makes you happy.
— Dr Kelso Scrubs
Choose life, choose to be happy and make somebody smile.
— Ray S. Jones
I'll be happy when I get married." The faith, the hope, the conviction that marriage is a happy institution, the sincere tone, the lack of any shred of doubt, made the world a better place that moment. I even probed, 'What makes you happy now?' He stuck to his guns," I'll be happy when I get married." Was it naivety or what is hope? Who was I to judge!
— Andy Paula
I'm not rich as Bill Gates neither I'm famous as Tom Cruise, But trust me I am happier than all of them.
— Rishabh Surya
We were together for a year
—  she just left me when I pledged her my love.
God doesn't want you to be happy, He wants you to be strong.
— Brian McGreevy, Hemlock Grove
Galen!" The crown princess flung herself into her husband's arms with a glad cry. The other princesses shrieked and threw themselves at their brother-in-law only a moment later.
— Jessica Day George, Princess of the Silver Woods
Happiness is simply a habit of looking on the brighter side of everything.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
His smile wavers. I've been looking at him too long. 'Are you OK?' he says. I nod, take a deep breath. Then I lean over and kiss him.
— Emma Pass, Acid
There is Story Behind every Smile and You Are My Favorite Chapter!!
— Saima
Life could sometimes be grand.
— Stephen King, Needful Things
I sat down at the table, took a deep breath, smiled at Detective Masterson, and nodded at Deputy Slalom. It was going to be a great summer. Normal.
— Erynn Mangum, Sketchy Behavior
For happy are the merciful for they shall, too, know mercy.
— David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness
If it weren’t for the fact that he’d been flat on his back in a full body cast, then recovering, he probably would be glad he missed finishing the school year since it meant he’s now enrolled at his version of Hogwarts.
— Andrea Cremer, Invisibility
Been living on this earth for so long now and still don't know what a happy life feels like. I'm ready for a change.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
They would be a duet. They would be happy. What is happy, anyways?
— David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness
Don't search about happiness in a miserable way.
— anas alhijjaj
Motivation is the first step in achieving your dreams!
— Craig Mercier, The Book of Craigisms
You do not need to make everyone happy, because you are not paid for.
— M.F. Moonzajer
I was happy with her and I suspect I never knew her.Would I have been truly happy if I had actually known her?
— José Eduardo Agualusa, Barroco Tropical
SMILE!!!!! TODAY is the TOMORROW you worried about YESTERDA"Y
— Dale Carnegie
Don’t be gloomy. Do not dwell on unkind things. Stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight. Even if you are not happy, put a smile on your face. ‘Accentuate the positive.’ Look a little deeper for the good. Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, with great and strong purpose in your heart. Love life.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
I didn't think past the first step of anything, that was the key. I drank a Coke and didn't worry about how to recycle the can or about the acid puddling in my belly, acid so powerful it could strip clean a penny. We went to a dumb movie and I didn't worry about the offensive sexism or the lack of minorities in meaningful roles. I didn't even worry about anything that came next. Nothing had consequence, I was living in the moment, and I could feel myself getting shallower and dumber. But also happy.
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Claire, I-Look, my life is one long series of screw-ups and bad decisions, and I know that. I own that. But you...I just want you to be happy. And it cuts me when you're not.""I'm happy with you."She heard the smile in his voice this time. "So what do you really want? A storybook life in Vampireville, with your life on the line every day and a half?""I'm considering it," she said. And she was.
— Rachel Caine, Fall of Night
At first happiness might seem like just desserts for biological fitness (more accurately, the states that would have led to fitness in the environment in which we evolved). We are happier when we are healthy, well-fed, comfortable, safe, prosperous, knowledgeable, respected, non-celibate, and loved. Compared to their opposites, these objects of striving are conducive to reproduction. The function of happiness would be to mobilize the mind to seek the keys to Darwinian fitness. When we are unhappy, we work for the things that make us happy; when we are happy, we keep the status quo. The problem is, how much fitness is worth striving for?
— Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works
The power of a smile is such that even drawing a happy face on a piece of paper makes your lips turn up.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
How to be happy in life? The short and simple answer is to SMILE more often!
— Al Munoz
Life is a difficult thing to understand. It makes us too much happy and suddenly takes away the happiness. But we should smile in every phase of the life.
— Sahaj Oberoi
Having someone this male next to her made her soul feel exhilarated and convey brazenly suggestive, female, liberal ideas to her inner id.
— Missy Lyons, Alien Promise
Maybe we should remember to smile more often. You know, just for the sake of smiling.
— Gabe Berman, Live Like a Fruit Fly: The Secret You Already Know
Martha told me, "I don't know how you're going to talk about romance in your book, but you're going to have to because its truly part of all our lives down there-and in a big way- because its an incredibly sensuous environment. Think of how many times you've fallen in love down there, and how many times people have fallen in love with you. Its a place where we shine. We're the happiest in our lives. We're vibrant. We're just so full of life, and not only does that put you in the mood for love, it sets you up for it. People are really drawn to people who are shining, who feel so happy where they are and who they are and what they're doing and who they're doing it with.
— Martha Clark
I love you , I love you, I love you, I will say it a million more times if I have to.
— brody campbell
Whatever circumstances may occur, just stay calm and be HAPPY for our rest of life....
— Ish Vanity Wanderer Ish
Truth is very important for live happy.
— Jagannath Hembram
When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.
— Sydney Smith
Every answer you ever need lies within your own silence..
— Ian Tucker, Your Simple Path - Find Happiness in every step.
Being happy is easy. Easy until you start believing that happiness is tied to a relationship, a job, your income, a product you buy, fame, a status, or any of a number of things that you don't currently have in your possession. Being happy is easy, as long as you understand everything you need to be happy exist in you already. You just have to stop looking out and start looking in to find it.
— Sean   King
Don't be sad because it's over. Be happy because you can start over.
— Ria Tumimomor
There will always be a down but also always an up, your moods depends on wich of the two you pay the most attention to.
— Laurins
The commencement of true happiness is the realization that your happiness begins with you.
— Ogwo David Emenike, Happiness Recipe: Eat and Stay Happy
The peak of happiness is attained when a person has accepted to be what he is.
— Ogwo David Emenike, Happiness Recipe: Eat and Stay Happy
First seek happiness from within, then you will find it without.
— Ogwo David Emenike, Happiness Recipe: Eat and Stay Happy
...the most beautiful things don't always make you happy - often they make you weep...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Happiness does not completely depend on comforts or opulence. Even a pauper can be happier than a prince.
— Ogwo David Emenike, Happiness Recipe: Eat and Stay Happy
All of us are in the manufacturing industry - manufacturing either our own happiness or unhappiness.
— Ogwo David Emenike, Happiness Recipe: Eat and Stay Happy
There is a good life. The goodnews is that you can live that good life. The good life is the happy life. To live this good life, be happy! A truly happy man is a good man.
— Ogwo David Emenike, Happiness Recipe: Eat and Stay Happy
Happiness is a journey, not a journey's end.
— Ogwo David Emenike, Happiness Recipe: Eat and Stay Happy
What I see especially among the Navajos and the Zunis and the Hopis is a culture of people who have been smart enough to learn a lesson that we're awfully slow to get... They know that being rich doesn't have any damn thing to do with how much money you've got. It's got to do with are you happy and are you content.
— Rachel Dickinson
I'm happy here, and why change when you love the club and the club's in a really good position right now.
— Frank Lampard
While I was yearning for happiness I became happy.
— Ogwo David Emenike, Happiness Recipe: Eat and Stay Happy
And in this quiet moment, as I close my eyes, spent and sated, I think I'm in the eye of the storm. And in spite of all he's said and what he hasn't said, I don't think I have ever been so happy.
— E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey
I had made it somewhere special, and I'd gotten there all on my own. Nobody had given it to me. Nobody had told me to do it. I'd climbed and climbed and climbed, and this was my reward. To watch over the world, and to be alone with myself. That, I found, was what I needed.
— David Levithan, Every Day
The world around me was oblivious, but for once, I felt absolute
— Rebecah McManus, Colliding Worlds
Most people think love comes from the heart or soul. The heart simple pumps blood, so love can't be created there. Where is the center for what appears to be a persons soul? The brain. And what is created there Jilly? That's right-dopamine. What does dopamine do? creates feelings of love and euphoria. How do we get our brains to create more? Drugs, massage, and or sex. Boil it down and it's all just dopamine. The good news is that you can also get more dopamine pumping through your brain by skiing fast...
— Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
— Mark Twain
The path to paradise begins in hell.
— Dante Alighieri
Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
— Jorge Luis Borges
How to Commit the Perfect Murder" was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.
— Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. neither do I. maybe that's why we get along
— Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth Poems
Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Par
— Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
If there's no chocolate in Heaven, I'm not going.
— Jane Seabrook, Furry Logic Laugh at Life
There was a thing called Heaven
—  but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.
If it's possible to send a message from heaven, I'll get one to you.
— Lurlene McDaniel, Don't Die, My Love
Come back to me, Tessa. Henry said that perhaps, since you had touched the soul of an angel, that you dream of Heaven now, of fields of angels and flowers of fire. Perhaps you are happy in those dreams. But I ask this out of pure selfishness. Come back to me. For I cannot bear to lose all my heart.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
I don't wonder anymore what I'll tell God when I go to heaven when we sit in the chairs under the tree, outside the city........I'll tell these things to God, and he'll laugh, I think and he'll remind me of the parts I forgot, the parts that were his favorite. We'll sit and remember my story together, and then he'll stand and put his arms around me and say, "well done," and that he liked my story. And my soul won't be thirsty anymore. Finally he'll turn and we'll walk toward the city, a city he will have spoken into existence a city built in a place where once there'd been nothing. 
— Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
Few religions are definite about the size of Heaven, but on the planet Earth the Book of Revelation (ch. XXI, v.16) gives it as a cube 12,000 furlongs on a side. This is somewhat less than 500,000,000,000,000,000,000 cubic feet. Even allowing that the Heavenly Host and other essential services take up at least two thirds of this space, this leaves about one million cubic feet of space for each human occupant- assuming that every creature that could be called ‘human’ is allowed in, and the the human race eventually totals a thousand times the numbers of humans alive up until now. This is such a generous amount of space that it suggests that room has also been provided for some alien races or - a happy thought - that pets are allowed.
— Terry Pratchett, The Last Hero
The critical question for our generation—and for every generation—is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all thefriends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, andall the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beautiesyou ever saw, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted, and nohuman conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied withheaven, if Christ were not there? 
— John Piper, God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself
Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven.
— Anne Rice, Memnoch the Devil
This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven.
— Rick Bragg
Heaven has no taste.""Now-""And not one single sushi restaurant."A look of pain crossed the angel's suddenly very serious face.
— Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket – safe, dark, motionless, airless – it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.
— C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience
—  here is the place to have the experience.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
— Franz Kafka
Why does that kid think so highly of himself?""Kids that think they're so smart.They're everywhere! Destroy is self-esteem!""Yes...I really do think highly of myself.People like me should get a taste of the ups and downs of life! Sorry I'm so envious.I will reflect upon this. Please don't be angry."Ah..um..""There, I said it now. Are you satisfied?" ........"Bye
— Natsuki Takaya, Fruits Basket, Vol. 7
One nice thing about heaven is that you can relive all your favorite moments and memories pretty much as many times as you want—sort of like a DVD of your whole life. Pause, rewind, fast-forward, slowwww motion, all day, every day.
— Jess Rothenberg, The Catastrophic History of You and Me
If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there.
— Billy Joel
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground
— Dante Alighieri
Heaven might shine bright, but so do flames.
— Neal Shusterman, Everwild
All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, "I am the way.
— Catherine of Siena
All that damn therapy you made me go through — and sometimes, Dad, it takes going through hell to reach your heaven.” I looked at the door. “That bad huh?” “What?” “You like her that much?” “No.” I swallowed. “I love her.
— Rachel Van Dyken, Ruin
Belize: Hell or heaven? [Roy indicates "Heaven" through a glance]Belize: Like San Francisco.Roy Cohn: A city. Good. I was worried... it'd be a garden. I hate that shit.Belize: Mmmm. Big city. Overgrown with weeds, but flowering weeds. On every corner a wrecking crew and something new and crooked going up catty corner to that. Windows missing in every edifice like broken teeth, fierce gusts of gritty wind, and a gray high sky full of ravens.Roy Cohn: Isaiah.Belize: Prophet birds, Roy. Piles of trash, but lapidary like rubies and obsidian, and diamond-colored cowspit streamers in the wind. And voting booths.Roy Cohn: And a dragon atop a golden horde.Belize: And everyone in Balencia gowns with red corsages, and big dance palaces full of music and lights and racial impurity and gender confusion. And all the deities are creole, mulatto, brown as the mouths of rivers. Race, taste and history finally overcome. And you ain't there.Roy Cohn: And Heaven?Belize: That was Heaven, Roy.
— Tony Kushner, Angels in America
I don't like Paradise,As they probably don't have obsessions there.
— Alda Merini
Where are there lots of colors, Colton?" "In Heaven, Dad. That's where all the rainbow colors are!
— Todd Burpo, Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
No, I thought. Not just Hell. Really, Heaven was just as guilty. What kind of group could advocate goodness and not allow its members to love?
— Richelle Mead, Succubus Revealed
Heaven, such as it is, is right here on earth. Behold: my revelation: I stand at the door in the morning, and lo, there is a newspaper, in sight like unto an emerald. And holy, holy, holy is the coffee, which was, and is, and is to come. And hark, I hear the voice of an angel round about the radio saying, "Since my baby left me I found a new place to dwell." And lo, after this I beheld a great multitude, which no man could number, of shoes. And after these things I will hasten unto a taxicab and to a theater, where a ticket will be given unto me, and lo, it will be a matinee, and a film that doeth great wonders. And when it is finished, the heavens will open, and out will cometh a rain fragrant as myrrh, and yea, I have an umbrella.
— Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli
She sealed his lips with a wanton kiss; 'Though I forgive your breaking your vows to heaven, I expect you to keep your vows to me.
— Matthew      Lewis, The Monk
I hoped he'd take his dog and drive down to the ocean. I hoped there was still time. I pictured him sitting on the gray rocks with the waves crashing and spraying white foam. Maybe he'd hear something in the roar of the ocean, feel some limitless power, believe that there's something greater. Something more. Maybe his heaven was at the coast, with a dog's head in his lap, with nothing but water and depth from there to the horizon." -Delaney
— Megan Miranda, Fracture
I don't really like this song," Emma had said."You told me it was your favourite.""It's beautiful. But it always makes me sad.""Why, love?" he'd asked gently. "It's about finding each other again. About someone coming home."Emma had lifted her head from his shoulder and looked at him earnestly. "It's about losing someone, and having to wait until you're together in heaven.""There's nothing in the lyrics about heaven," he'd said."But that's what it means. I can't bear the idea of being separated from you, for a lifetime or a year or even a day. So you mustn't go to heaven without me.""Of course not," he had whispered. "It wouldn't be heaven without you.
— Lisa Kleypas, Dream Lake
No. Don't never go looking for love girl. Just wait. It'll come. Like the rain fallin' from the heaven, it'll come. Just don't never give up on love.
— Sonia Sanchez, Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
I'm not interested in absolute moral judgments. Just think of what it means to be a good man or a bad one. What, after all, is the measure of difference? The good guy may be 65 per cent good and 35 per cent bad—that's a very good guy. The average decent fellow might be 54 per cent good, 46 per cent bad—and the average mean spirit is the reverse. So say I'm 60 per cent bad and 40 per cent good—for that, must I suffer eternal punishment?"Heaven and Hell make no sense if the majority of humans are a complex mixture of good and evil. There's no reason to receive a reward if you're 57/43—why sit around forever in an elevated version of Club Med? That's almost impossible to contemplate.
— Norman Mailer, On God: An Uncommon Conversation
In eternity this world will be like Troy, I believe, and all that has passed here will be the epic of the universe, the ballad they sing in the streets.
— Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person’s nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell.
— Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms
Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.
— Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
It's okay to laugh, you know. The earth's not going to split open. You're not going to hell. Believe me. If there's a hell, I'll be there ahead of you, and they'll be too busy with me to even check you in.
— Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
Do I believe in Heaven and Hell? I do, we have them here; the world is nothing else.
— John Davidson
From a human point of view, out bodily existence is a fairytale. At any rate, to the inhabitants of the human world, 'heaven' and 'the next world' are both nothing but fables.
— CLAMP, Kobato, Volume 4
We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose." "Is that a lie?" "It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed. "Postulating a heaven gives man an out for having been unable to retain the paradise he was given here on earth.
— Sheri S. Tepper, A Plague of Angels
Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.
— Jules Renard
Now she and I sit together in her room and eat chocolate, and I tell her that in a very long time when we both to go heaven, we should try to get chairs next to each other, close to the dessert table.
— Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten.
— W.H. Auden, A Certain World: A Commonplace Book
Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you...God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it--made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand.
— C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
He lifts her breasts, which fit perfectly into his hands, though he knows this is no promise that he gets to keep them. A million things you can't have will fit in a human hand.
— Barbara Kingsolver
As his (C. S. Lewis's) good friend Owen Barfield once remarked, Lewis radiated a sense that the spiritual world is home, that we are always coming back to a place we have never yet reached.
— David C. Downing, Into the Region of Awe: Mysticism in C. S. Lewis
They don't live here. They live in Heaven.'Where's that?'I don't know,' I said. 'Enos says it's right here, on this side of the wall, but I never saw an angel over here. Kuba says it's in Russia. Olek says Washington America.'What's Washington America?'Enos says it's a place with no wall and no lice and lots of potatoes.
— Jerry Spinelli, Milkweed
I wanted to tell you that the man who is your father, the man who gave you life, has found a woman who is in heaven when she's in his arms.
— Scott Spencer, Endless Love
Can't even feel dissapointed when seeingheaven ain't as wonderful as ever expected.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
To what end, he wondered, had the Divine created the stars in heaven to fill a man with feelings of inspiration one day and insignificance the next?
— Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
It may be possible for each to think too much of his own potential glory hereafter; it is hardly possible for him to think too often or too deeply about that of his neighbor. The load, or weight, or burden of my neighbor's glory should be laid daily on my back, a load so heavy that only humility can carry it, and the backs of the proud will be broken. ... "It is in light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations -- these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit. ... Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.
— C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
When heaven joins the battle against you, who could stand?
— Stephen R. Lawhead, Hood
There's just something about the way he sings. It makes me think of when it snows outside, and the fire is warm, and Podo is telling us a story while you're cooking, and there's no place I'd rather be--but for some reason I still feel... homesick.
— Andrew Peterson, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness
My name is Danielle. I'm eighteen. I've been stealing things for as long as I can remember.
— Elizabeth Scott, Stealing Heaven
Let the meek have the kingdom of heaven. The strong shall rule on earth.
— Jenny Trout, Ashes to Ashes
Heaven and Earth are meeting in a storm that, when it's over, will leave the air purer and the leaves fertile, but before that happens, houses will be destroyed, centuries- old trees will topple, paradises will be flooded.
— Paulo Coelho, Aleph
I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog.
— C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle
Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.
— George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we are currently there, whether we know it or not.
— Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms
Worship leader George Beverly Shea kidded Billy Graham that the latter would be unemployed in Heaven -- while Shea would still have a job leading worship.
— Billy Graham, Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well
Life with trials hard may press me
— Heaven will bring me sweeter rest.
This is a book about Heaven. I know it now. It floats among us like a cloud and is the realest thing we know and the least to be captured, the least to be possessed by anybody for himself. It is like a grain of mustard seed, which you cannot see among the crumbs of earth where it lies. It is like the reflection of the trees on the water.
— Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow
Smartass Disciple: Master, why heaven is up there and hell is down there ?Master of Stupidity: If otherwise, it wouldn't be celebrated as ascension day.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
We are afraid that Heaven is a bribe, and that if we make it our goal we shall no longer be disinterested. It is not so. Heaven offers nothing that the mercenary soul can desire. It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to. There are rewards that do not sully motives. A man's love for a woman is not mercenary because he wants to marry her, nor his love for poetry mercenary because he wants to read it, nor his love of exercise less disinterested because he wants to run and leap and walk. Love, by definition, seeks to enjoy its object.
— C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, 'You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise.
— Oscar Wilde, The Selfish Giant
Heaven is the most angelically dull place in all creation
— George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an’ on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an’ that same damn thing in their heads . . . every damn one of ’em’s got a little piece of land in his head. An’ never a God damn one of ’em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land.
— John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Heaven might not be what everyone thinks it is, but that don’t mean it’s a myth.
— China Miéville, Railsea
The bliss of the elect in heaven would not be perfect unless they were able to look across the abyss and enjoy the agonies of their brethren in eternal fire.
— Pope Gregory I
Birds are the eyes of Heaven.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Heaven is space in universe that has unique laws of nature.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
He sang 'Stairway to Heaven' in four different languages but never knew where that staircase stood.
— Sherman Alexie, Reservation Blues
And when my days run out, I will have lived just a blink of time and the rest will be eternal joy.
— Abby Danielle Burlbaugh
June suns, you cannot store themTo warm the winter's cold,The lad that hopes for heavenShall fill his mouth with mould.
— A.E. Housman, More Poems