Quotes About Happiness

Kiedy kto? si? ?mieje, to jest specjalna okazja.

Children are like that, Irene often thought, for every small dose of happiness they give us, we have to swallow all the bitterness in the world. Men are like that too. That's how the world is.

Hic Habitat Felicitas—Happiness Dwells Here.

Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while.

The things we once thought of as luxuries soon become necessities (although, by the same token, our sense of well-being would quickly adapt to losing half our income). What we care about is not our absolute wealth but our rung on the ladder. Ruut Veenhoven, a leading researcher of happiness, says, "When we have overtaken the Joneses, our reference drifts upward to the Smiths, and we feel unhappy again.

Human love, now even more than then, is widely tasked with achieving what once only divine love was thought capable of: to be our ultimate source of meaning and happiness, and of power over suffering and disappointment.

Nothing is ever really lost. The memories of good friends and good times are always there, never more than a thought away. In a sense, they never really stopped happening. Every moment you ever treasured, every friend you ever valued is still there, separated from us only by time; the past is still happening and always will be. It's only we who have moved on.

Happy, you really are a first-class gloomy bugger," JC said affectionately. "You could gloom for the Olympics, and still take a Bronze in existential paranoia." Everyone has to be good at something," said Happy smiling in spite of himself.

There'll always be small, bitter people ready to follow some charismatic leader who promises them peace and happiness through justified violence and the killing of scapegoats.

together, almost out of their minds with excitement

Craig leapt spryly out of the way. He was in a good mood. He'd just received an e-mail from Angel Resources informing him that he'd clinched another Angel of the Month award. The prize was pretty good this time: a coupon for a medium pizza of his choice. There was some fine print on the back of the coupon: deep-dish pies cost extra, he couldn't order more than three meat toppings, and the offer expired in fifteen days.

The greatest privilege of childhood is to live totally in the present.

The happiness of children is based on their ignorance of what their parents are really thinking

Is there any greater blessing than to love and be loved.

that, she thought, was the quiet crime of these times: if you made your conscience elastic enough, you could learn to tolerate anything and still find joy in the blossoming of flowers.

Allowing yourself to smile takes 99% of the effort.

It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it.

Maybe happiness is just finding the right people at the right time." "But how do you find them?" ... "But say you do find the right people - how do you love them without smothering them?...How do you not suffocate them with all the love you've built up in their absence?" "You don't. And that's the whole point - it works in a way it just wouldn't with other people.

The memories keep him company. He doesn't believe in finding anyone new. He's happy with what he had. Desire is met with the memory of satisfaction.

She knew in her heart that being together would always be enough.

There's no joy even in beautiful Wisdom, unless one have holy Health.

I'm getting older so I've started to smile more, because I want the crow's feet to go up.

Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.

I saw you happy. Happier than you've been in a long time. With someone you like that much, the lows are as low as the highs are high.