Quotes About Happiness

They glanced over at Catherine, who was dancing with Billy, as only fathers and daughters can dance. No matter how old the daughter may be, the father is dancing, in joy unparalleled, with his child when she was little.

Harry looked at Margaret and thought that, should a woman grow old, she might still have her deepest charm. Should a woman grow old, she would still be a woman, the essence of being so being so inerasable as never to vanish. And if men were to understand this as they, too, grew old, the world would be a happier place.

to cite Montaigne, "Nature always gives us happier laws than those we give ourselves."125

Alessandro learned yet again that the joy of escape is better than the joy of merely being free.

Your materialism will make you suffer terribly not only at the end but also on the way.

Better to have a font of money in middle age than when you're young. Middle age is the time when you'll need it and appreciate it. I'll never appreciate it. I've been trained out of it. I don't want money. I want much more. I want what rarely happens. I want what people are afraid even to imagine. Like what? Resurrection, redemption, love.

For someone who is happy, celebration is yet another channel or instrument through which happiness may course. For someone who is not, celebration is a tedious parody of existence that seems pointless and false.

We are like poor people, who have nothing but each other, and are happy.

Though it would take a long time for him to understand the principle, it was that to be paid for one's joy is to steal.

Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes. Mum's the word. I suppose it's because his wife's dead, said Christiana, that he dances with a broom. I don't think so, said Boonya. He dances with a mop, too. Maybe he had a mistress. He did, but she had short hairs. I also got short-haired mops.

We don't stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing. —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

But when we believe that only what we want holds the gold, then we find ourselves easily depressed by what we lack. Then we are pained by what we perceive as the difference between here and there, between what we have and what we need.

Having a dog or cat will open your heart. Reading a book will open your mind. Having both a pet & a book...absolute heaven.

I have never learned to fight for my freedom. I was only good at enjoying it.

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Comparison is the death of joy.

V prvom rade sú to naÅ¡e myÅ¡lienkové vzorce, nie udalosti, ktoré nás vedú k nespokojnosti, ?i spokojnosti.

What my religion understood as faith required a happy face in front of tragedy, a commitment to joy despite the circumstances. Faith is the answer before the question is asked.

Be a fool. For love. For yourself. What you think MIGHT possibly make you happy—even for a little while—whatever the cost or good sense might dictate.

Life is good. I like my job.