Quotes About Happiness

The very idea that my time could be owned by someone else, monitored by a clock, and traded not for freedom but for money struck me as lunacy. Where did happiness factor in, and what about the desire for a meaningful life defined not by your possessions but by your experiences?

There are only two times in this world when I am happy and selfless and pure," he said. "One is when I jack off on paper and the other when I empty all the fretfulness of desire on a young male body.

He was aware of the irony that he who prized his freedom and willingness to seek the truth had been happiest when he had a defined purpose, a sense of duty and obligation, and a specific destination in mind.

It is better to live rich than to die rich. SAMUEL JOHNSON

Can we wait just a minute Turn that TV off for a minute Now politics and talkin shit aint really none of my buisness Lets go and play the songs we used to play On that old school radio Let the music soothe your soul Forget about the world Im groovin with my girl Forget about the news Lets put on our dancin shoes Lets not talk about the war Do we know what they fightin for I propose that we go to the floor and we slow dance

Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

Everything is clearer when you're in love.

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.

business of man is to be happy

Men always forget that human happiness is a disposition of mind and not a condition of circumstances.

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this world. He that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be but little the better for anything else. Men's happiness or misery is most part of their own making. He, whose mind directs not wisely, will never take the right way; and he, whose body is crazy and feeble, will never be able to advance in it.

Nature, I confess, has put into man a desire of happiness and an aversion to misery: these indeed are innate practical principles which (as practical principles ought) DO continue constantly to operate and influence all our actions without ceasing: these may be observed in all persons and all ages, steady and universal; but these are INCLINATIONS OF THE APPETITE to good, not impressions of truth on the understanding.

When I look at my own children, Mrs Hargreaves, I think… I think I know what childhood's for. It's to give us a bank of happy memories against future suffering. So when sadness comes, at least you can remember what it was to be happy.

Was it worth it, Peredur?" Richard said. "So I am now undisputed King. Do I have a son, or brothers? Is the land renewed? Shall I decree happiness, on pain of death?

The most important thing in life is not happiness but meaning.

Faith is a creative act. It is through faith that we transform the accidental events of our lives into the signs of our destiny. Happiness is fortuitous but meaning is conferred when chance is transfigured through a rebirth of images.

MUSIC IS THE SOUND OF LIFE, CELEBRATING ITSELF.

Make kindness an integral part of what you think, say and do. And, I assure you of this. It will give you a life filled with inner peace, love, joy, and happiness. -John Magee

Feelings, who needs them? Sometimes they're like a gift, when you feel love or happiness. Sometimes they're a curse.

Life's harder, the deeper you feel things, was all I could think as I put the books away. Feelings, who needs them? Sometimes they're like a gift, when you feel love or happiness. Sometimes they're a curse.

The days that make us happy make us wise.