Quotes About Happiness

Each time he suggested they get married, she said no. They were too happy, precariously so, and she wanted to guard that bond; she feared that marriage would flatten it into a prosaic partnership.

There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.

Enjoy the now. Time flies, enjoy it while you can.

My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.

When you are happy time appears shorter, when you are sad time appears longer. And in meditation we transcend time!

Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.

we, dear wife of my bosom, could have been perfectly happy if you had ever given us half a chance, for we are so much alike.

Rhett: 'Do you still want me to go to hell?' Scarlett: 'Well, not as often as I used to.' Rhett: 'Do it whenever you like, if it makes you happy.' Scarlett: 'It doesn't make me especially happy,' said Scarlett and, bending, she kissed him carelessly. His dark eyes flickered quickly over her face, hunting for something in her eyes which he did not find, and he laughed shortly.

Listen, I'll share some of the wisdom I learned over the years. When you near the end of your life... when you're a lonely old man... you start realizing what your accomplishments are really worth. The most brilliant clue I ever deciphered, the millions I earned -- even the microwavable burrito itself -- sometimes I think I'd be willing to trade all of it for a single hug of someone who truly loves me.

What is happiness, after all, but the fleeting, transitory butterfly of an emotion that is impossible to catch and hold for long before it flies away.

He is very short-sighted and thus walks happily through this world blind to all its ugliness. For him, daily life passes in a pleasant blur.

Die now! For you can never be as happy as you are at this moment and it would be better to die with this feeling in your heart than know the bitterness of its loss.

To have the capacity for happiness was, presumably, to be able to envisage a future in which happiness could have its place.

It's as if they were happy, and as if it came from outside themselves. And I have nothing like that.

Ne bildiÄŸinizi bilmeden bildiÄŸinizi san?rs?n?z, o bilginin sonuna varamazs?n?z, dünyadaki mutsuzluÄŸun tek ba??n?za sureti olduÄŸunuzu san?rs?n?z, imtiyazl? bir al?nyaz?s?n?n sureti. Kendinizi olmakta olan bu ÅŸeyin hakimi san?rs?n?z, böyle bir ÅŸeyin var olduÄŸunu san?rs?n?z

She has a golden laugh, fit to wake the dead

She seems to be in a state of what can only be described as unbearable well-being.

J'ai eu cette chance d'avoir une mère désespérée d'un désespoir si pur que même le bonheur de la vie, si vif soit-il, quelquefois, n'arrivait pas à l'en distraire tout à fait.

Have you a medicine to cure unhappiness, Doctor? – What unhappiness?

La vie est atroce ; nous savons cela. Mais précisément parce que j'attends peu de choses de la condition humaine, les périodes de bonheur, les progrès partiels, les efforts de recommencement, et de continuité me semblent autant de prodiges qui compensent presque l'immense masse des maux, des échecs, de l'incurie et de l'erreur.

Tout bonheur est un chef-d'oeuvre: la moindre erreur le fausse, la moindre hésitation l'altère, la moindre lourder le dépare, la moindre sottise l'abêtit.

Happiness is a masterpiece: the slightest error compromises it, the slightest hesitation undermines it, the slightest excess corrupts it, the slightest vulgarity defiles it.

Se dice: loco de alegría. También podría decirse: cuerdo de dolor.

toda felicidad me da casi siempre la cordura.