Quotes About Happiness

We can see happiness as the output of an ancient biological feedback system that tracks our progress in pursuing auspicious signs of fitness in a natural environment. We are happier, in general, when we are healthy, comfortable, safe, provisioned, socially connected, sexual, and loved. The function of happiness is to goad us into seeking the keys to fitness.

But if popular impressions are a guide, today's Americans are not one and a half times happier (as they would be if happiness tracked income), or a third happier (if it tracked education), or even an eighth happier (if it tracked longevity).

being happy might make people supportive, generous, and conscientious rather than the other way around.

The recoognition of a right to life,liberty and the pursuit of happiness and the mandate of government to secure the rights are too tepid for a morally viable society.

Meat tastes good, and eating it makes people happy.

En resumen, sin la posibilidad de sufrir, lo que tendríamos no sería una dicha armoniosa, sino que, al contrario, careceríamos por completo de conciencia.

Yet it would be mad to suppose that Sally is not better off, and positively depraved to conclude that one may as well not try to improve Seema's life because it might improve her neighbors' lives even more and leave her no happier.

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give!

Everyone loves to dance. I've realized that's a part of what I do more and more every day.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.

I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season.

Going through life without love is like going through a good dinner without an appetite -- everything seems so flat and tasteless.

Life I love you, all is groovy.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Love isn't supposed to torment you. If it does, there's probably something wrong.

I can't really explain what it's like to be in love, but I feel like it's being comfortable. It's almost like having a best friend. It's a beautiful thing.

Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.

I have found that to love and be loved is the most empowering and exhilarating of all human emotions.

By pursuing the things you love, all the other things in life will fall into order.

Dance, and make joyous the love around you. Dance, and your veils which hide the Light shall swirl in a heap at your feet.

To achieve happiness I advocate four major principles, the principles of love, wisdom, self-reflection, and progress.

Loving what you do is almost as important as doing what you love, especially if you need to make a living at it.