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It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it.

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I saw myself in the mirror, and from my expression I had a shocking intimation of the rift between my body and my soul. Whereas my face was drained by...more

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Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.

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The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where neither then mind conceived of nor the hand intended any.

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After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happ...more

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Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beaut...more

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In fact no one recognizes the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it. It may well be that, in a moment of joy, one might sincerely belie...more