Quotes about happiness

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“And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.”

“While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.”

“When a man likes you, he will be interested in finding out what you like. If he makes you happy, he feels more secure. Everything men do is intended to impress women.”

“They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale---and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.”

“The key to happiness - as any good fairy godmother will tell you - is not to avoid problems, but to overcome them.”

“Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person’s bookcase and their grocery cart, she’d pretty much know who they were.”

“Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.”

“I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.”

“You can be a depressive and be happy, just as you can be a sober alcoholic.”

“Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Linus Pauling”

“She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.”

“If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they'd be.”

“The things that make us happy make us wise.”

“Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.”

“We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.”

“Lesson no. 17: Happiness is caring about the happiness of those you love.”

“My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.”

“Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.”

“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)”

“You have to open up to the world and learn optimism… Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim.”

“It is by being fully involved with every detail of our lives, whether good or bad, that we find happiness, not by trying to look for it directly.”

“To be truthful i am not entirely sure what people mean when they talk of happiness. There are moments of joy and laughter, the comfort of friendship, but enduring happiness? If it exists i have not found it”

“I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy.”

“If it is true that there is no greater sorrow than to remember a
happy time in a state of misery, it is just as true that calling up a
moment of anguish in a tranquil mood, seated quietly at one's desk, is
a source of profound satisfaction.”

“If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.”

“How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.”

“Happy Birthday Seaweed Brain”

“Maybe one day it will be just you and me, my little blueberry," Magnus said conversationally. "But not for a long, long time. We'll take care of him, you and I. Won't we?"
Max Lightwood made a happy burbling sound that Magnus took as agreement.”

“The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy for yourself and yourself.”

“If you've ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you.”

“In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they have no lawyers.”

“There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more… secure.”

“A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.”

“There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks. Even as it happens you are nostalgic for the moment, you are tucking it away in your scrapbook.”

“One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.”

“You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.”

“Ah! Vanitas vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied? — Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.”

“Before and after… I heard a thousand times that a boy, or a man, can't make you happy, that you have to be happy on your own before you can be happy with another person. All I can say is, I wish it were true.”

“That time we separated was my idea. I thought, well, I'm fifty years old and there might be someone else out there. People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.”

“The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the fear, the greater the happiness I feel.”

“Success is getting what you want.
Happiness is wanting what you get.”

“Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don’t have to do it, but it’s here if you choose to come back to it.”

“She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness…”

“You wanted happiness, I can’t blame you for that, and maybe a mouth sounds idiotic when it blathers on about joy but tell me you love this, tell me you’re not miserable.”

“Before that she hadn’t realized how fragile happiness was, how if you were careless, you could knock it over and shatter it.”

“Throughout his life the memory of that happy day stayed locked secretly in (his) heart.”

“If you want to be happy, be!”

“Happiness is feeling useful to others.”

“Um i'm happy to sit close to you and everything, but i had no idea you would like it so much,' Paris muttered.”

“To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness”

“Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love.”

“The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.”

“The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.”

“This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.”

“Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!”

“Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.”

“Il me semble que je serais toujours bien la ou je ne suis pas.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.”

“Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed”

“Everyone deserves a happy ending.”

“we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.”

“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”

“Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.”

“There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness.”

“The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.”

“It's good to suffer. Dont complain. Bear, bow, accept - and be grateful that God has made you suffer. For this makes you better than the people who are laughing and happy.”

“We are always in a hurry to be happy…; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.”

“So you're trying to make her happy despite the fact that the reason she's unhappy in the first place is you," said Simon, not very kindly. "That seems contradictory, doesn't it?"
"Love is a contradiction," said Jace.”

“I really believe there are some people who hate to contemplate the happiness of others.”

“… because all happiness is contagious, and disarms the spirit of hatred.”

“There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.”

“Doctor I've wrestled with reality for 40 years and I'm happy to say that I've finally won out over it.”

“May we all be doomed to a happy life.”

“It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields final power.”

“I'm happy to tell you there is very little in this world that I believe in.”

“Maybe this is a characteristic of happy people. An ability to be entertained by the world.”

“Happiness is not having what you want, it is wanting what you have.”

“Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got. Do you want to be really miserable? You can begin by being discontented.”

“Life is too hard, too much to handle. Nobody told me there’d be days like these. How could nobody tell me there’d be days like these? How could they let me grow up like that—happy and pink and stupid?”

“Happy Birthday."
Adrian came to a sudden halt. The words were soft and small, spoken tentatively, but easily discerned by vampire ears. Slowly, he turned around and found Jill Mastrano standing shyly before him.”

“what made you happy once might not make you happy now.”

“Whatever you focus upon, increases…… When you focus on the things you need, you'll find those needs increasing…… A grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.”

“What we call Life is a condition of the soul. And the soul must improve in happiness and wisdom, except by its own fault. These tears in our eyes, these faintings of the flesh, will not hinder such improvement.”

“All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.”

“The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.”

“She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity.”

“I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.”

“He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.”

“The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.”

“Most times we're so focused on what we think we want that we can't appreciate how happy we already are. It's only when we forget about our problems and help others forget theirs that we realize how good we really have it.”

“Clary and Simon continued to stare judgmentally. It made Simon very happy. Judging people together was an essential part of best friendship.”

“His statement to himself should have been 'I possess this now, therefore I am happy', instead of what it so Victorianly was: 'I cannot possess this forever, therefore I am sad.”

“When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.”

“Joy, happiness, are hopes and our dreams…. A place of peace and harmony… that's the kind of land I invision.”

“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”

“Often, moreover, it is… that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes.”

“When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?”

“You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"… when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy.”

“That secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.”

“Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.”