Quotes About Happiness

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade

I loved most when his eyelashes twitched and he blinked, and suddenly happiness was there inside his eyes. Unmistakable. Like a single word printed on a clean white page.

Happiness is a treadmill of a goal for people who are not happy by nature. Being an unhappy person does not mean you must be sad or dark. You can be interested instead of happy.

But I think I would have been happier if the only thing that came out of his mouth was the sound of a turning page.

I realized I could really become hooked on these happy pills. They gave me a glorious feeling of general well-being and didn't make me fat, like alcohol. I wondered if there was any harm in being addicted to only these.

You would be amazed at what you can give up, lose or break and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

Happiness is a wonderful goal for those who are inclined on a genetic level toward that emotional end of the spectrum. Happiness is a treadmill of a goal for people who are not happy by nature. Being an unhappy person does not mean you must be sad or dark. You can be interested instead of happy. You can be fascinated instead of happy.

His laugh is made of porch swings and lemonade.

Like somebody who was just happy because there was macaroni and cheese in the world.

The person who loses their ability to walk will care more about the brownies than about the walking. Because if they have lost the ability to walk, they have accepted the loss. Walking was then, brownies are now. You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies. It only seems like I am kidding.

When you have a blueprint for what happiness is, lay it over your life and see what you need to change so the images are more aligned.

We're all going to die eventually so why not have some fun.

The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.

The truth is that the only time I'm happy is when I'm doing absolutely nothing. I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feel like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness...

In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

Don't think of them now. Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. You're here. It's our time and our life, not theirs. Don't struggle not to be happy. You are. - John Gault

Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched.

We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one's happiness is evil. We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.

I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.