Quotes About Happiness

Your grandparents always told me, Make a useful life. I don't feel I've really done that, but I can make a useful death... - My life has been determined so much by accidents, it seems nice that now an accident on purpose will make things right again. A happy accident.

I have many friends who are married—not many who are happily married, but many married friends.

But I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.

I just want you to be happy, Amy. How many times did he say that and I took it to mean: I just want you to be happy, Amy, because that's less work for me.

Before Amy and I got serious, got engaged, got married, I would get glimpses of Go's thoughts in a sentence here or there. It's funny, I can't quite get a bead on her, like who she really is. And: You just seem kind of not yourself with her. And: There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her. And finally: The important thing is she makes you really happy. Back

I hope you're feeling better about yourself too, Camille. That's an important thing, liking oneself. A good attitude infects just as easily as a bad one." "Enjoy the horses." "I always do.

You just seem kind of not yourself with her. And: There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her. And finally: The important thing is she makes you really happy.

There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her. And finally: The important thing is she makes you really happy.

I was probably happier for those few years--pretending to be someone else--than I ever have been before or after. I can't decide what that means.

We just want you to be happy...but they never explained how...I remember always being baffled by other children. I would be at a birthday party and watch the other kids giggling and making faces, and I would try to do that too, but I wouldn't understand why.

Not that love is a competition. But I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.

Don't sweat the small stuff, it's all small stuff. If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. Enjoy life—no one gets out of here alive. Don't worry, be happy.

I thought we would be the most perfect union: the happiest couple around. Not that love is a competition. But I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.

Penny beamed so widely, her smile threatened to completely encircle her head and split it in two.

We all enter this world crying. Laughter is something we have to learn

Often, when I sewed, I would slip into a meditative state, almost as if I'd become one with the fabric and thread. At these times, I felt a kind of release that was almost like happiness.

The greatest feeling is to have somebody that's so happy to see you.

Ya ves qué tontería, me gusta escribir tu nombre, llenar papeles con tu nombre, llenar el aire con tu nombre; decir a los niños tu nombre, escribir a mi padre muerto y contarle que te llamas así. Me creo que siempre que lo digo me oyes. Me creo que da buena suerte. Voy por las calles tan contenta y no llevo encima más que tu nombre.

Laughter is a rescue. p.204

Yeah! shouted Jonah, twirling the much larger Hamilton around the restaurant in a victory dance. The other diners watched in amazement. This wild display was hardly the public image of the too-cool-for-school Jonah Wizard. What's the matter? Hamilton challenged. Haven't you ever seen a happy rapper before?

I used to call my dad. The surge of emotion is so raw that it's all I can do to hold back tears. One look at him and I'm six years old again, and he's hugging me and stroking my hair the way he did when I was upset. I was living a lie back then, but at least I was happy.

As the late afternoon sun shone in Shaw's face and a soft flower-scented wind cooled him, his unhappiness turned to a detachment that was not at all unpleasant. He was utterly alone in the world. This knowledge thrilled him.

I believe in justice, I want redress for all wrongs done, I want the good life-if such a thing exists-accessible to all. Yet, emotionally, I would be only too happy to become world dictator, if only to fulfill my mission: the destruction of the last vestigial traces of traditional manhood in the race to realign the sexes, thus reducing population, while increasing human happiness and preparing humanity for its next stage.

No man ever knows when he is happy; he can only know when he was happy.