Quotes About Happiness

And perhaps those artful people in the Bible are right, and the only way to get happiness is not to think about it, or to think of other people having it instead, and so, fooling it, catch it at last in the nets of one's own indifference.

She tipped her cup over the saucer and then looked at the tea leaves. "It's a fine thing for a Marxist to say," she added, "but I do see signs of happiness here." She cheated, though, moving one tea leaf alongside another to improve the omens.

Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.

Now she had taken off her goodness and left it behind her like a heap of rain-sodden clothes, and she only felt joy.

On wet days I will go into the thickest parts of the forest, where the pine needles are everlastingly dry, and when the sun shines I'll lie on the heath and see how the broom flares against the clouds. I shall be perpetually happy, because there will be no one to worry me.

This was the simple happiness of complete harmony with her surroundings, the happiness that asks for nothing, that just accepts, just breathes, just is.

She gave me a dirty look. Then she broke into the bubbly champagne laugh. She turned and ran, limping but steady. She laughed over her shoulder, letting out the line as I held the kite above my head. "Run with me, Rose," she cried.

For the pleasure of giving, because what's the point of just having? If I give a thing, I remember how happy we both were when I made the gift.

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

When something wonderful happens...it is to be cherished in the heart and in the mind. We must not be afraid of the wonderful things, nor must we let others laugh them away from us. Only thus do we learn how to hold our dreams.

He smiled, that gay clean smile of his that I knew so well and that had so often been like a light to me. For one of those brief magic moments of time the years slipped away, and I was back in the tiny old cottage in Sussex that a friend had loaned to us for a few days. It was our wedding night and Bill was saying, "All of me to you, darling, forever." Yes, that was it: all of each of us to the other. Forever. Whatever.

Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.

And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

We two make banquets of the plainest fare In every cup we find the thrill of pleasure... For us life always moves with lilting measure We two, we two, we make our world, our pleasure

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough Without your woe. No path is wholly rough.

Berbicaralah mengenai hal-hal yang membahagiakan. Dunia sudah cukup sedih tanpa keluh kesah kita. Sebenarnya tidak ada jalan hidup yang seluruhnya sulit ditempuh.

To possess character is to be useful, and to be useful is to be independent, and to be useful and independent, is to be happy, even in the midst of sorrow; for sorrow is not necessarily unhappiness.

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

To be able to enjoy heaven, one must learn first to enjoy earth.

It is enjoyed by millions of souls to-day—this great prize of life. I for one declare that for every day of misery in my existence I have had a week of joy and happiness. For every hour of pain, I have had a day of pleasure. For every moment of worry, an hour of content.

But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter.