‘... I’m in the mood for a good mood.’ (ISWM)
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... there was probably no combination of vowels that could do justice to the cry Nanny Ogg made on seeing a young baby. It included sounds known only to cats. (CJ)
'Oh, it's easy to be happy when you don't know any different....' (FC)
'Money don't buy happiness, Gytha.'
'I only wanted to rent it for a few weeks.' (Ma) The invisible people knew that happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in. (WA)
… she was definitely feeling several twinkles short of a glitter and suffering a slight homesick-tinged dip in her usual sunny nature. People didn’t hit you over the head with farmhouses back home. (WA)
It is a mistake trying to cheer up camels. You may as well drop meringues into a black hole. (P)
They didn’t live completely happily ever after – there was the time Edwo walked mud all over the palace carpets, and the time the roof leaked – but they were at least as happy as they wanted to be.
And why not, after all? (DCC) It is a strange thing to find yourself doing something you have apparently always wanted to do, when in fact up until that moment you had never known that you always wanted to do it …. (Sn)
'… the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery.' (ISWM)
Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh because table manners on a beach are funny. And sometimes you laugh because you're alive, when you really shouldn't be. (N)
Just for a moment there was an unusual feeling of bliss. Strange word, he thought. It’s one of those words that describes something that does not make a noise, but if it did make a noise would sound just like that. Bliss. (TT)
'I thought you were just happy to get paid,’ said Buddy.
‘Right. Right. But I’m even happier to get paid a lot.' (SM) 'I believe it’s very hard to have fun in Iceland without fish being involved in some way.' (JD)
One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual. (J)
'Wen considered the nature of time and understood that the universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. Therefore, he understood, there is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your eyes and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore, he said, the only appropriate state of mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of the heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it.' (TOT)
'It’s not being ill at all. If lots of bad things have happened to you it’s healthy to be depressed,’ said Johnny. ‘That’s sense, isn’t it? What with the business going down the drain, and Dad pushing off, and Mum just sitting around smoking all the time and everything. I mean, going around smiling and saying, “Oh, it’s not so bad” – that would be mental.' (JB)
And Sam Vimes ran. He tore off his cloak and whirled away his plumed hat, and he ran and ran.
There would be trouble later on. People would ask questions. But that was later on – for now, gloriously uncomplicated and wonderfully clean, and hopefully with never an end, under a clear sky, in a world untarnished…there was only the chase. (J) She gave a depreciating little chuckle. And if Nanny Ogg had been listening, she would have resolved as follows: that no maddened cackle from Black Aliss of infamous memory, no evil little giggle from some crazed vampyre whose morals were worse than his spelling, no side-splitting guffaw from the most inventive torturer, was quite so unnerving as a happy little chuckle from a Granny Weatherwax about to do what’s best. (Ma)
So long as he caught nothing Terpsic Mims was one of the Disc’s happiest anglers, because the Hakrull river was five miles from his home and therefore five miles from Mrs Gwladys Mims, with whom he had enjoyed six happy months of married life. That had been some twenty years previously. (M)
'Will she live happily ever after?’ he said.
NOT FOREVER. BUT PERHAPS FOR LONG ENOUGH. (WA) 'Never build a dungeon you wouldn’t be happy to spend the night in yourself,’ said the Patrician, laying out the food on the cloth. ‘The world would be a happier place if more people remembered that.' (GG)
A lot of things never entered Mrs Whitlow’s head. She’d decided a long time ago that the world was a lot nicer that way. (LC)
There was something about Granny Morkie cheering people up that always got them moving. Anything was better than being cheered up some more. (Dig)
'… for a witch there are no happy endings. There are just endings.' (W)
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