"The truth is that when one is..." - Quote by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The truth is that when one is still a child-or even if one is grown up- and has been well fed, and has slept long and softly and warm; when one has gone to sleep in the midst of a fairy story, and has wakened to find it real, one cannot be unhappy or even look as if one were; and one could not, if one tried, keep a glow of joy out of one's eyes.
More by Frances Hodgson Burnett
“Nothing in the world is so strong as a kind heart.”
“You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.”
“She did not know that this was the best thing she could have done, and she did not know that, when she began to walk quickly or even run along the paths and down the avenue, she was stirring her slow blood and making herself stronger by fighting with the wind which swept down from the moor.”
More on Happiness
“Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance”
“Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor”
“If you will thank me '' he replied let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them I believe I thought only of you.”