Quotes About Happiness

È un Natale stupendo. Una di quelle cose che si scrivono sui temi a scuola: la neve fuori delle finestre della baita, il panettone, i dolcetti, le bibite e anche lo spumante, benché siamo tutti minorenni e i nostri ci abbiano proibito di bere alcolici. [...] Zigzagando lenti dai monti scendono a valle i maestri di sci, reggendo le torce: a me sembrano tante perle di fuoco strette attorno al collo del mio amore. È Natale, e tutti sono felici.

It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy.

I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall.

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

We never taste a perfect joy our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.

N'attendons pas demain: Cueillons dès aujourd'hui les roses de la vie / Live, don't wait until tomorrow to pick the roses of life

I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.

Entrepreneurs cannot be happy people until they have seen their visions become the new reality across all of society.

There are two things that give me perfect happiness - doing the perfect shot and travelling. I get stressed, really stressed by the fact that there is just so much to see and I am not going to live long enough to visit all the places I want to.

Living in London has become incredible. I suppose it's easy to love where you live if you love what you're doing. But this is not just a visit: it's my home.

I'm the happiest at home when I get a visit from my daughter-in-law, BC Jean, and Mark Ballas, my son. They'll pop round for breakfast or I'll attempt to cook them a meal. That's the most special time for me.

In my childhood, I used to usually visit Christmas fairs in our area and at school with my friends and I really miss those days.

I am very proud of my two grandchildren and I visit them very often.

There are still civil rights issues. There are still people who can't be visited by their spouse in the hospital because they're gay. These are humanitarian issues. At the end of the day, all you want is for people to be happy in the pursuit of life, love and liberty.

At the age of one, I was already heavier than most: doctors told my mum that she should start feeding me differently to the advice given by the health visitor. Yet I ate healthily, nothing was processed, and I was active and happy. But for whatever reason, I was on the bigger side.

The ways that my dogs can make me - and my visitors - happy constantly amazes me.

Wherever Modi has addressed the local Indian communities during his visits to foreign countries, the Indians there are extremely happy. After the prime minister's visits, the Indians in those countries are feeling a great sense of pride, and the respect for them has increased.

Writing about joyful experiences for just three days can improve people's moods and decrease their visits to health centers a full three months later.

I'm quite an untidy person in a lot of ways. But order makes me happy. I have to have a clear desk and a tidy desktop, with as few visual distractions as possible. I don't mind sound distractions, but visual ones freak me out.

I didn't intend 'Hector' to be a self-help book when I first started writing. I wrote it as a little tale about a psychiatrist, like me, who sets off around the world in order to discover the vital ingredients for happiness.

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Economic success is the vital underpinning of every happy nation.

I often say that the opposite of depression is not happiness but vitality.