Quotes About Happiness

It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Why look any further if you've discovered complete satisfaction.

Happy! That will-o'-the-wisp.

As Maia turned to go, hardly believing that there could be such happiness, she heard a loud splash. Miss Minton was leaning over the side, watching the parcel she had held on her knees floating away downriver. "What was that?" asked Maia. Miss Minton straightened herself. If you must know," she said, "it was my corset.

Happiness is almost as good as magic for altering a person's looks.

It was too much... the gods would not permit such joy.

She smiled, her face tender in the lamplight. "I wish you had known him. He could make just being alive seem like an act of triumph. People used to smile when they saw him coming… he made everything all right.

Felicity followed felicity.

There was a pause. Then: "And you've got me," said Finn. Maia lifted her head and smiled at him. For a moment she felt completely happy. Then she looked at Finn's hand resting on the tiller. "But you're going away." "Yes," he said. "That's true. I'm going away.

In a way, part of the widespread success of happiness actually lies in that it delivers a legitimate, universalizing and apolitical discourse for individualism - a discourse that conceives one's life as separate from community and which sees the inner life as the cause and root of all behaviors.

This excessive blame of individuals for their failure to lead happier lives would actually explain in part why individuals of individualist societies tend to rank themselves as above 7 out of 10 points in happiness questionnaires. According to some studies, a cognitive positive bias would account for the strong and systematic tendency amongst individuals of these societies to protect their self-esteem by inhibiting negative evaluations of their lives.

Happiness, indeed, becomes not only a prerequisite for work - more and more managers claim to select workers according to their levels of happiness and positivity - but also the very content of the work itself, with positive emotions, attitude and motivations rising as essential psychological features, even more important or essential than skills or technical qualifications.

Positive psychologists insisted that people need to increase their happiness not only when things go wrong, but also when things go well, thus introducing a fundamentally new role to academic psychology: not only correcting suffering, but maximizing selfhood.

Different fields notwithstanding, since their early alliance positive psychologists and happiness economists have shared the conviction that happiness was not an ill-defined or speculative construct with more than fifty shades of historical and philosophical grey, but an objective, universal concept that can be unbiasedly and accurately measured.

If you are in harmony with the stream of life, giving yourself up to it, whatever comes your way will smoothly carry you forward. While in unreality, you know but two alternatives which are both equally wrong. The one is "I can be happy only if everything happens the way I want it when I want it." The other alternative is "Since I have seen that so many times I cannot get what I want, I can never get it, therefore I can never be happy.

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But not joy. No, that belonged to simpler minds.

a human mind is a wandering mind, and a wandering mind is an unhappy mind. The ability to think about what is not happening is a cognitive achievement that comes at an emotional cost.

Love doesn't make the world turn. But it sure makes the ride worth while

Your happiness is always worth it! No matter what.

It does matter," Lauren said earnestly. "My mom always says that everyone just needs three things to be happy—something to do, something to look forward to, and someone to love." He

There is physical evidence of the body's response to doing good. Endorphins are released in the brain when you do something for someone else. Doing good really feels good.

I'm just considering myself extremely lucky. All I wanted is to have 'Paranormal Activity' be released and become successful. And everything that's happened since then is just an enormous bonus.