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Quotes About Emotion

All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.
~ Richard von Krafft-Ebing
We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.
~ Alexander Smith
It is you who are choosing, in any moment, to be happy or choosing to be sad, or choosing to be angry, or forgiving, or enlightened, or whatever. You are choosing.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Happiness is a warm gun.
~ John Lennon
Happiness is this place that, once you arrive there, you have nothing else to do. You get bored. Passion is this up and down; it's like a rollercoaster, you know, and much more interesting to me.
~ Paulo Coelho
Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another?
~ Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly - one thing, her happiness and her unhappiness.
~ Leo Tolstoy
There is always the personal, simple happiness that doesn't happen.
~ Mary Lynn Rajskub
Happiness is the most elusive thing for human beings to find.
~ Frederick Lenz
I'll have to admit, he really does have quite a smile.Kind of heart-stopping, especially as it comes out of nowhere. I mean... you know. If your heart was in the kind of place to be stopped.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Happiness is the moment when one doesn't feel pain.
~ Bobbejaan Schoepen
Joy is not a thing, it is in us.
~ Charles Wagner
Happiness is a rare cosmetic.
~ George Whyte-Melville
I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.
~ Yoko Ono
He tried to smile, but it was just a shape his mouth made.
~ Melissa Bank
I loved most when his eyelashes twitched and he blinked, and suddenly happiness was there inside his eyes. Unmistakable. Like a single word printed on a clean white page.
~ Augusten Burroughs
'Tis what I love determines how I love.
~ George Eliot
So that made me happy but the part that really made me happy was that you wanted me to be happy. That's what Thank you means.
~ Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam
Unshared joy is an unlighted candle.
~ Spanish proverb
A caress is better than a career.
~ Elizabeth Marbury
All who joy would winMust share it -- Happiness was born a twin.
~ George Gordon Byron, Don Juan
I am intrigued by the smile upon your face, and the sadness within your eyes
~ Jeremy Aldana
I don't want to be the one who says life is beautiful. I want to be the one who feels it.
~ Marty Rubin
You don't have to be happy to smile.
~ Daniel Willey