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Quotes About Emotion

I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.
~ Alan Bennett, The History Boys
Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.
~ Eric Weiner
Annual income is £ 20, the cost is 19, you will feel happiness. If annual income of £ 20, the cost is £ 20.6, you will see suffering
~ Charles Dickens
Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky.
~ Adela Rogers St. Johns
Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.
~ John Lubbock
Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
~ Victor Hugo
For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.
~ Emily Dickinson
The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Feel the joy .. feel the happiness.
~ Rhonda Byrne
Happiness is contagious. Be a carrier!!
~ Robert Orben
The herd instinct seems to be the strongest human emotion, one that the race is constantly breeding off as the mavericks are liquidated. Happiness is running with the crowd.
~ John Train
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.
~ Robertson Davies
Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.
~ Jane Austen
Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.
~ Jonathan Franzen
This was what happiness felt like - this wondrous, miraculous alternative to dread.
~ Meg Rosoff
Oh, this happiness is strong stuff.
~ J. D. Salinger
It is a sad thing to want for happiness, but it is a terrible thing to see another groping about blindly for it, when it is almost within the grasp.
~ Theodore Dreiser
Happiness is not a destination. It is a mood, it is not permanent. It comes and goes and if people thought that way then maybe people would find happiness more often.
~ Mark Schwahn
Emotion doesn't have to be happiness.
~ Rex Brandt
She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.
~ Jane Austen, Emma
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
Happiness too is inevitable.
~ Albert Camus