Quotes About Happiness

There are those who will congratulate you when something good happens in your life and those who will never, nevertheless smile with them all, but mark the good ones and the bad.

We invite happiness into our lives by humbling ourselves.

My mind to me a kingdom is;Such present joys therein I findThat it excels all other blissThat earth affords or grows by kind:Though much I want which most would have,Yet still my mind forbids to crave.

My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sweetest smile is made saddest tear-drop!

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Mixture of lie doeth ever add pleasure.

How happy is he born and taught,That serveth not another's will;Whose armor is his honest thought,And simple truth his utmost skill!

Everything is what it is: liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or culture, or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Love is like Christmas; you're surprised by this wonderful gift and can hear the angels sing.

Were the happiness of the next world as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.

The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.

A source of innocent merriment!

When constabulary duty's to be done,The policeman's lot is not a happy one.

Only the unprotected self can feel joy.

Chance had given me this small adventure and I was pleased.

To forget is ordinary. Even people in mourning, distracted by some little happiness, forget the dead.

I told myself to remember the snow and to remember my pure, strong happiness at simply being alive to see it. That thought has never left me.

Walking across campus made me feel sad, and I thought to myself, I wasn't happy there. Then, after reading, we walked past Butler Library. It was dark, but the light inside illuminated the windows. Students were reading and working, and those lit windows gave me a wonderful, weightless feeling. I understood for the first time how happy I had been there - in the library.

I was walking home from the library on Broadway, and I remember that the street looked different to me, very clear and beautiful, and I felt incredibly happy. I even said to myself, 'I've never been happier than I am now.

Sometimes, I would put down my book and look at the two of them in the light of my reading lamp. I now think I was lucky that I wasn't young. I knew what I might not have known earlier - that my happiness had come. I even told myself to fix the image of my wife and son in my mind while I watched them sleep, and it is still there, a clear picture left by my conscious wish.

Once you're in love, you have that excuse to go and do whatever you want.