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Quotes About Happiness

Today, when I meet children on this beach, when I see them running in the dunes, or lying on the hot stone wall that was once a levee, I remember that I was like them once, with their incredible lightness and insouciance, soaking in the sun. You can never really let go of your childhood. Especially when it was happy.
~ Philippe Besson
Je voulais juste t'écrire que j'ai été heureux pendant ces mois que nous avons passés ensemble, que je n'ai jamais été aussi heureux, et que je sais déjà que je ne serai plus jamais aussi heureux.
~ Philippe Besson
I've seen the wedding pictures, my mother put them in an album. She looks at them regularly, she must like to remember her youth. (Or else she confuses youth with happiness, as people frequently do.)
~ Philippe Besson
I just wanted to write to tell you that I have been happy during these months together, that I have never been so happy and that I already know I will never be so happy again.
~ Philippe Besson
It was love, of course. And tomorrow, there will be a great emptiness. But we could not continue—you have your life waiting for you, and I will never change. I just wanted to write to tell you that I have been happy during these months together, that I have never been so happy, and that I already know I will never be so happy again.
~ Philippe Besson
The best way to live is God's way. His commands are not burdensome (1 John 5:3); they are made for us to enjoy life. God made the world. He is the only person qualified to write the User's Manual. And because he is loving and generous, his instructions will always lead to the best and happiest life. The
~ Phillip D. Jensen
Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
~ Phillips Brooks
Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves they fill those they meet with a free mind.
~ Philo
One thing is certain: the time will come when the opinions of priests and doctors must give way to the science of life; for their opinions lead to death and misery, and the science of life is health and happiness.
~ Phineas Parkhurst Quimby
I am Ayo. Joy. I choose to remember.
~ Phyllis Alesia Perry
Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
~ Phyllis Bottome
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
~ Phyllis Diller
A smile is a curve that sets things right.
~ Phyllis Diller
If you don't have wrinkles, you haven't laughed enough.
~ Phyllis Diller
You don't have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
I know, but if I feel this bad for Gramps, how am I going to feel when it's Dad?" Tyler told me. "You'll feel even worse, of course, but you'll carry on, because happiness has a way of creeping in again. It really does," I said.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Reading" had always been my lifeline-- an escape to that imaginary world where hurts were fictional and endings happy...
~ Phyllis Whitney
La leggerezza interiore nasce forse dal sentirmi libera dalla zavorra terribile del futuro, indifferente al cruccio del passato. Immersa nell'attimo presente, come prima mai era accaduto, faccio finalmente parte del giardino, di quel mondo fluttuante di trasformazioni continue
~ Pia Pera
When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy, and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me.
~ Pia Toscano
I like to see love stories: romantic comedy or romantic drama.
~ Pia Zadora
If you are not happy, act the happy man. Happiness will come later. If you are in despair, act as though you believe. Faith will come afterwards.
~ Pico Iyer
Yes, I love that word "absorption" because I think that's my definition of happiness. I think all of us know we are happiest when we forget ourselves, when we forget the time, when we lose ourselves in a beautiful piece of music or a movie or a deep conversation with a friend or an intimate encounter with someone we love. That's our definition of happiness.
~ Pico Iyer
I decided that I would no longer seek out holy places in [a] city of temples. I would just let life come to me in all its happy confusion and find the holiness in that.
~ Pico Iyer
L'ansia del consumo è un'ansia di obbedienza a un ordine non pronunciato. Ognuno in Italia sente l'ansia, degradante, di essere uguale agli altri nel consumare, nell'essere felice, nell'essere libero: perché questo è l'ordine che egli ha inconsciamente ricevuto, a cui «deve» obbedire, a patto di sentirsi diverso. Mai la diversità è stata una colpa così spaventosa come in questo periodo di tolleranza.
~ Pier Paolo Pasolini