Quotes About Happiness

no human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness

he forgot for the while what experience had taught him-that no human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

I had no memory at all of Sarah and I was completely free from anxiety, jealousy, insecurity, hate: my mind was a blank sheet on which somebody had just been on the point of writing a message of happiness. I felt sure that when my memory came back, the writing would continue and that I should be happy.

Baines wasn't really happy; he was only watching happiness from close to instead of from far away

Pain belongs to you as happiness never does.

Are you a happy man?' Querry asked. 'I suppose I am. It's not a question that I've ever asked myself. Does a happy man ever ask it? I go on from day to day.

I was sunk deep in my middle age. All the same I laid my head against her breast. 'I have been happy,' I said, 'but I have seen so bored for so long.

How strange and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.

It's always the same wherever one goes—it's not the most powerful rulers who have the happiest populations.

I got a glimpse of something young, dark and happy and not yet spoiled: an animal that didn't yet recognize her captivity.

When you are miserable you envy other people's happiness.

How good You are. You might have killed us with happiness, but You let us be with You in pain.

Love is not wrong, but love should be happy and open -- it is only wrong when it is secret, unhappy . . . It can be more unhappy than anything but the loss of God. It is the loss of god. You don't need penance, my child, you have suffered quite enough.

but he intentionally courted dishonour, he rejoiced in contempt and disregard, for 'he who is despised lies happy, freed of all attachment'.

He was distrustful of happiness as some people fear heights or open spaces.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives. Where we focus our attention.

Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

In a world of fragile self-justification, the truth made no one happy.

Meeting someone you like and dating him is supposed to make you feel better, not worse.

Is he making you happy? I don't mean some of the time, on rare occasions, not that often, "but the good still outweighs the bad." Does he make it clear in his actions every day that your happiness is important to him?

the end, only you can make you happy.

Your happiness is the most important thing in this life. If you are not happy, you are of no use to anyone else.

I have resolved a simple thing: I will do those things which make me happy today, and which I can also live with ten years from now.

Most had lived the first decade of their lives with big grins; too many had lived the remainder with a confused scowl and a diminishing sense of control over their futures.