Quotes About Happiness

Such attitudes are grotesque, impudent and irrelevant. 'Could do better' is a meaningless conclusion. 'Could be happier' is the only one that counts.

The memory of pain soon goes, the memory of pleasure lingers, that is one of life's happier truths.

It is, I know, for I have experienced it perhaps twice in my life, an awful privilege to be too much loved and perhaps the kindest thing I ever did in my life was never to let Matthew know to what degree he had destroyed my peace and my happiness.

His humans were happy, yes; but to Prometheus such a safe, unchallenged, and unchallenging existence had no zest to it.

Art matters. Happiness matters. Love matters. Good matters. Evil matters. Slam the fridge door. They are the only things that matter and they are of course precisely the things that science goes out of its way to ignore.

Your quality of life is directly tied to the amount of love flowing in you and through you to others. Though it's often overlooked, love is infinitely more valuable than riches, fame, or honor. They will pass away, but love remains.

And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

Don't ask me silly questions I won't play silly games I'm just a simple choo choo train And I'll always be the same. I only want to race along Beneath the bright blue sky And be a happy choo choo train Until the day I die.

Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings? Not all boats which sail away into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question..

I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.

Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.

Dancing is life.

Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.

Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.

the late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood ...

I was being paid to do what I loved, and there's no gig on earth better than that; it's like a license to steal.

A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures...

Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.

About halfway through I broke down crying, which I hadn't expected. I was a little ashamed, but only a little;it was her, you see, and she never taxed me with the times that I slipped from the way I thought a man should be...the way I thought I should be, at any rate. A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures, and one without must be among the most miserable, I think, the only true blessing of their lives that they don't know how poorly off they are.

It was sweet and lovely, that smile, perhaps the more so because it wasn't complicated by much in the way of thought.

It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.

Everybody likes the ice cream man.