Quotes About Happiness

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

During that time, the young man met and married a beautiful young woman who had completed her law degree from Columbia University but had decided to pursue her MBA afterward because she had no desire to practice law. Who does? Still, they were happy.

even a drop of happiness could color a whole well of misery.

Defiant joy does not depend on feeling happy. Defiant joy is solely based on the victory of Jesus Christ and all that He has won for you.

That is why we must remember that though happiness is rooted in our circumstances, joy is rooted in eternity.

Hope is the nutrient-rich soil in which joy flourishes.

Non sarà mai felice, - diceva - la felicità è come l'acqua. Non arriva in un momento, bisogna trovarla, preparare la pompa, fare un pozzetto, mettere le tubature e i rubinetti, Dopo che te la sei conuistata con fatica, allora la poi bere.

E sapevamo ridere, e ridere è musica divina

Voglio sentire tutti in una volta i nodi con cui sono stato legato al mondo, ogni volta che la mia vita si è incrociata con un'altra. Crollare a terra sotto questo felice groviglio

È Natale ogni mattino che vivi. Scarta con cura il pacco dei giorni. Ringrazia, ricambia, sorridi.

La morale è: non dobbiamo ridere quando siamo contenti noi, ma quando sono contenti loro.

Happiness can never hope to command so much interest as distress.

I admire your courage. It is rare to find a woman who places her personal happiness above her fears for the future.

But all these examples of differing marital and sexual norms make it difficult to claim there is some universal model for the success or happiness of a marriage.

Today married people in Western Europe and North America are generally happier, healthier, and better protected against economic setbacks and psychological depression than people in any other living arrangement.

Are you, are you happy? I am today, she said. Maybe that's what really mattered? Living in the now, and all that crap about the past being over? The future hasn't happened, and today is forever? These aren't the kinds of statements that belonged beside question marks.

Hygge is experiencing quiet joy in any given moment. It is the complete absence of anything annoying or emotionally overwhelming. It is taking pleasure from the things around you.

Choosing your emotions is a mindset trick that is at the very foundation of a comfortable life. And

Your sense of ease and peace will be enormous once you stop telling yourself and everyone else what is wrong in your life.

As ??ntideva puts it in the Bodhicary?vat?ra: When both myself and others Are similar in that we wish to be happy, What is so special about me? Why do I strive for my happiness alone? And when both myself and others Are similar in that we do not wish to suffer, What is so special about me? Why do I protect myself and not others?

Even though we are the most privileged and richest human beings there have been so far, in terms of the stability and length of our lives and the cultural resources available to us, we're not as happy as we should be. I'd like to see politics more oriented toward the question of happiness; certainly I'd like to see religion more concerned with making integral, happy people and raising the quality of personal life in our culture.

That's the trouble with happy endings," he told me after the funeral. "You just live on and on, until you've sucked all the juice out, and it turns out not to be so happy after all.

Just giving someone flowers, or inhaling their sweet aromas, makes us smile and promotes elevated moods, positive thoughts, and eases social encounters.

Our evolved natures should be treated with respect, but not with deference. We did not evolve to be happy: rather we evolved to be happy, sad, miserable, angry, anxious, and depressed, as the mood takes us. We evolved to love and to hate, and to care and be callous. Our emotions are the carrots and sticks that our genes use to persuade us to achieve their ends. But their ends need not be our ends. Goodness and happiness may be goals attainable only by hoodwinking our genes.