Quotes about Happiness
If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.
— Madeleine L'Engle
And joy is always a promise.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Their love was a bright flower, youthful and radiantly beautiful.
— Madeleine L'Engle
There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I cannot find it in me to believe that God enjoys long faces and scowls at merriment.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Active happiness is not a common state. Active unhappiness is better than dull days. Katherine was seldom in an intermediate stage.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Ananda: that joy without which the universe will fall apart and collapse.
— Madeleine L'Engle
That joy in existence without which the universe will fall apart and collapse.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Maybe if you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.
— Madeleine L'Engle
And joy, Grandfather would remind me, joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I'll ask you a riddle. What do you have the more of, the more of it you give away?
— Madeleine L'Engle
Now we leave our tears for mirth. Now we sing, not death, but birth.
— Madeleine L'Engle