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Quotes About Happiness

We are selling dreams. We are merchants of happiness.
~ Bernard Loiseau
We have two lives... the life we learn with and the life we live after that. Suffering is what brings us towards happiness.
~ Bernard Malamud
Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
~ Bernard Meltzer
Joie : Le devoir de tout homme est de cultiver sa joie intérieure.
~ Bernard Werber
others were showing off the jobs they'd got, the boyfriends who'd proposed, the babies on the way, the countless nights on the lash where they'd had the best time of their lives clubbing-partying-festivalling-getting-drunk-high and being happyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappy, with complexions filtered to perfection
~ Bernardine Evaristo
One of the most important things in life is to understand reality and to keep changing our images to correspond to it, for it is our images which determine our actions and feelings, and the more accurate they are the easier it will be for us to attain happiness and stay happy in an ever-changing world.
~ berne eric ii
Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily..
~ Bernhard Schlink
Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed not just on actual circumstances but on a promise that was not kept?
~ Bernhard Schlink
Anger eats up years faster than happiness, chile.
~ Bernice L. McFadden
Anger eats up years faster than happiness, chile. You better get on with your living and forget 'bout that hurt.
~ Bernice L. McFadden
Sugar, aint you ever had no good time?' she said with a bit of sadness in her voice. 'What you mean?' Sugar said,... 'Seems to me that I ain't never see you look up from whatever you were doing and just smile.' 'Just smile? Smile at what? At who?' 'Smile into the air, girl!' she said and waved her arm through the air....you better start, 'cause time is running and a life without good times ain't a life worth having.
~ Bernice McFadden
It is said that wealth cannot buy happiness. Perhaps that is true. But it is undeniably true that poverty can lead to despair
~ Bernie Sanders
if a man doesn't have a job or an income, he has neither life nor liberty nor the possibility for the pursuit of happiness. He merely exists.
~ Bernie Sanders
Het geluk is daar waar men niet is, behalve met wat drank op
~ Bernlef
Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.
~ Bertie Forbes
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Chi sa perché il dubbio appare agli uomini come una felicità.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels.
~ Bertolt Brecht
In order to be happy we require all kinds of supports to our self-esteem. We are human beings, therefore human beings are the purpose of god's creation
~ Bertrand Russell
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
~ Bertrand Russell
I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.
~ Bertrand Russell
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
~ Bertrand Russell
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
~ Bertrand Russell
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
~ Bertrand Russell