Quotes about happiness

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“Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.”

“To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.”

“Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness?”

“If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.”

“If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.”

“To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have.”

“When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre”

“Is anyone anywhere happy?”

“Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”

“But it is necessary to the happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.”

“Start calling yourself healed, happy, whole, blessed, and prosperous. Stop talking to God about how big
your mountains are, and start talking to your mountains about how big your God is!”

“She'd thought love had something to do with happiness, but it turned out they were not even vaguely related. Love was closer to a need, no different from the need to eat, to breathe.”

“It occurred to me that I was unhappy. And it didn’t feel so very terrible. No urgency, nothing. I could slip out of my life on a slow wave like this—it didn’t matter. I don’t have to be happy. All I have to do is hold on to something and wait.”

“Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.”

“You are Beautiful when you are happy”

“Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.”

“Making others happy, through kindness of speech and sincerity of right advice, is a sign of true greatness. To hurt another soul by sarcastic words, looks, or suggestions, is despicable.”

“The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.”

“The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.”

“A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.”

“Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.”

“People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.”

“Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.”

“More than two millennia later…. Hawthorne puts forward a similar vision: A woman must bring the 'new truth…. in order to establish the whole relation between man and woman on a surer ground of mutual happiness' (The Scarlet Letter p.241)…. With the brilliant economy of the letter A, he demonstrates why this vision is doomed to failure. The very passion that renders a woman able to see through the "iron framework" of Puritanism also disables her by causing her to be seen in the eyes of the Puritans as an impure woman, a woman who has been adulterated. This double vision… at once frees and imprisons women.”

“A mermaid found a swimming lad,
Picked him up for her own,
Pressed her body to his body,
Laughed; and plunging down
Forgot in cruel happiness
That even lovers drown.”

“Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.”

“Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”

“Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.”

“After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.”

“My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.”

“Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.”

“My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.”

“To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.”

“Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.”

“There is no such thing as happy music.”

“A great friendship was like a great work of art, he thought. It took time and attention, and a spark of something that was impossible to describe. It was a happy, lucky accident, finding some kindred part of yourself in a total stranger.”

“Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.”

“A beautiful thing is precious, no matter the price. Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy…”

“Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through”

“I remember thinking I just want more. This isn't it. Fame is not the goal. Money is not the goal. To be able to know how to get peace of mind, how to be happy, is something you don't just stumble across. You've got to search for it.”

“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”

“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”

“Never build a dungeon you wouldn't be happy to spend the night in yourself. The world would be a happier place if more people remembered that.”

“I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.”

“Love is pretty much a decision anyway. Just like happiness. You can decide to either love someone or not, be happy or not. The rest is just commitment to the idea.”

“I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.”

“Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else.”

“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”

“Lesson no. 5: Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story”

“I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.”

“Yes, if you happen to be interested in philosophy and good at it, but not otherwise – but so does bricklaying. Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.”

“Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.”

“You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.”

“Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.”

“There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.”

“Original, in French: La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur.

English: Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.”

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”

“Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?”

“I've found that there is always some beauty left — in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you. Look at these things, then you find yourself again, and God, and then you regain your balance. A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery!”

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”

“The malicious have a dark happiness.”

“You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.”

“These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had given their lives for literature after a happy existence in the very best pastures.”

“It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.”

“Don't give up on your own happy-evers.”

“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”

“Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.”

“Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.”

“I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.”

“Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.”

“Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.”

“Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings… It's something we make inside ourselves.”

“Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.”

“… happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves…. The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement….”

“Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.”

“Happy are those who hear their detractions and can put them to mending.”

“Money doesn't buy happiness, Gytha."
"I only wanted to rent it for a few weeks!”

“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”

“No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.”

“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.”

“Be happy.
It's one way of being wise.”

“I love him wholly and unconditionally and without reservation. I love him enough to sacrifice a friendship. I love him enough to accept my own happiness and use it, in turn, to make him happy back.”

“Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.”

“Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than
any other.”

“The world of the happy is quite different from the world of the unhappy.”

“Independence is happiness.”

“The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.”

“Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove.”

“Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.”

“Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.”

“A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.”

“Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.”

“Don't ask me silly questions
I won't play silly games
I'm just a simple choo choo train
And I'll always be the same.

I only want to race along
Beneath the bright blue sky
And be a happy choo choo train
Until the day I die.”

“Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.”

“All he knew was that you couldn't hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might just about be able to achieve some tiny deed that'd make the world, in a small way, a better place. Like shooting someone.”

“I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self.”

“It almost seemed as if there must be some random and of course unfair thrift in the emotional housekeeping of the world, if the great happiness--however temporary, however flimsy--of one person could come out of the great unhappiness of another.”

“Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.”

“We few. We happy few.
We band of brothers, for he today
That sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother.”