Quotes About Happiness

If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.

People buying apples and green beans usually have some degree of joy in their hearts.

Over the phone, her laughter sounded like a warm bath.

It's also interesting how it's hard to be depressed around a three-year-old, if you're paying attention. After a while, whatever you're mooning about begins to seem like some elaborate adult invention.

don't look for money to buy your life back

I avoided the emplyee smoking room aka drug-exchange HQ, and found no real downside to the job [in the produce department]. People buying apples and green beans usually have some degree of joy in their hearts. -p. 513

the secret of happiness is low expectations.

I avoided the employee smoking room aka drug-exchange HQ, and found no real down side to the job [in the produce department]. People buying apples and green beans usually have some degree of joy in their hearts. - p. 513

bandicoots, Carruth. They'll be wanting their happy

I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.

I believe I'm very happy.

But don't you want lots of money? Beene, I spent many years working for the Belgians in the rubber plantation at Coquilhatville, and I saw rich men there. They were always unhappy and had very few children.

If anybody else had ever wanted me happy, they could have fooled me. Possibly Mom, as long as it didn't cross tracks with her own maneuvers. That's all people really want, for you to fit into their maneuvers.

And here is the happiest news of all! When graduation was over, Room Nine did not even have to say good-bye to each other! Because all of us are coming back to this same school for first grade! So we can play at recess, just like Mother said! And guess what else? I can't wait to see those guys again! Because we will be friends forever and forever. And always and always. And I mean it.

playground! And so Mrs. brought me here to get

Tappy shoes are not happy shoes, I think

To my first love, my only love." "To my greatest love," he answered, clinking his flute to hers, happiness flooding

Why did bad things, things she had no control over, make her unable to enjoy good things?

But then, as seemed always to be the case when she found herself hit by a wave of happiness, or joy, or delight, there was an immediate undertow of sadness.

You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy.

To Love Is To Be Happy With

Nobel Prize–winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman and his colleagues have shown that what we remember about the pleasurable quality of our past experiences is almost entirely determined by two things: how the experiences felt when they were at their peak (best or worst), and how they felt when they ended.

people with high maximization scores experienced less satisfaction with life, were less happy, were less optimistic, and were more depressed than people with low maximization scores.

On the contrary, it's a way to make sure that you can continue to experience pleasure. What's the point of great meals, great wines, and great blouses if they don't make you feel great?