Quotes About Happiness

a wedding is just a party by another name.

I can never understand why people seem to think that growing up with unhappy parents is better than growing up with a happy single parent.

What is the happiest moment you can remember?" He didn't hesitate. "The day they delivered my Ferrari." "Fine! Tonight, you are going to look at me as if I'm your Ferrari." "Do I get to put your top down?

It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong.

In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

You're only as happy as your least happy child,' is the best description of motherhood I have ever read.

A good joke cleans your insides out. If I don't laugh for a week, I feel dirty. I feel dirty now, like my insides are rotting.

And in this day and age, we sometimes seem to care more about the record of joy than the experience of joy itself.

When you snatch happiness in little bits, fits and starts, and lose it, like me, you become coarse, little by little, you become hateful.

I think the only answer is to live life to the fullest while you can and collect memories like fools collect money. Because in the end, that's all you have - happy memories.

That's what dessert means to me: a dollop of sweet love in an otherwise cold world.

The city is a testament to civilization. Of course, I know from the last year that living in a gorgeous environment isn't enough to make you happy. But breathtaking beauty of any kind is moving. It makes tourists of us all. It anchors your heart to a place.

My happiness is nothing to him," she said. "Only his books! He has made me like a book. I am not meant to be taken, and touched, and liked. I am meant to keep here, in dim light, forever!

In short, Nance, even was you going to the very devil himself, your mother and I would rather see you fly from us in joy, than stay with us in sorrow - and grow, maybe, to hate us, for keeping you from your fate.

La felicità è una cosa talmente fragile di questi tempi. E' come se non ce ne fosse abbastanza per tutti.

With the world in the state it is, it's such a small, small thing. But I think the sad fact is that I'm about as happy in my life as you are in yours. I do my best for my mother—or, I tell myself that I do. Sometimes I seem to do nothing but scold her; we cross each other like a pair of scissors. She isn't happy, either. How could she be? I think she's simply marking time. Well, perhaps we all are.

Would it be all right, wondered Frances, if they were to allow themselves to be happy? Wouldn't it be a sort of insult to all those others who had been harmed? Or oughtn't they to do all they could—didn't they almost have a duty—to make one small brave thing happen at last?

We fitted together like the two halves of an oyster-shell. I was Narcissus, embracing the pond in which I was about to drown. However much we had to hide our love, however guarded we had to be about our pleasure, I could not long be miserable about a thing so very sweet. Nor, in my gladness, could I quite believe that anybody would be anything but happy for me if only they knew.

Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who trusts in Him!

I will show you the path of Life. In My Presence is fullness of Joy.

Yet Joy is still attainable. Search for it as for hidden treasure.

THIS IS THE DAY THAT I HAVE MADE. Rejoice and be glad in it.