Quotes About Happiness

One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school.

She sighed. "Go on, say it. I shouldn't have come." "You shouldn't have come." He looked sideways at her and gave her a fleeting grin. "But I'm glad you did.

People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a placid ecstasy, and ease of heart, that are like honey on the tongue.

As Dougal ushered them into the dining room, he wondered if Sophia's father and her grandfather would both wish to stay at MacFarlane House with them. But as he looked into Sophia's smiling eyes, he realized it didn't matter. So long as she was by his side, life would be a grand adventure. And no man could ask for more.

Nonsense," Ophelia said stoutly. "They're happy sheep. You can tell." "How?" Sophia demanded. Ophelia regarded the ewes for a moment, then suddenly broke into a huge grin. "Maybe you can tell they 're happy sheep because they don't feel baaaaad.

Roland sat beside his little sister. You are too young to know this, but love cannot grow in rocky soil. It must be planted in a tender heart, cared for with the gentlest of touches, warmed with happiness. and protected from all that might wish to harm it. That sounds like a lot of work, Melisandre said. It is a lot of work. But if it's true love, then it will be the lightest burden you'll ever carry.

ipecac syrup of happiness. There Lowell would be. With Harlow.

I'd learned long ago not to hanker after what I didn't have but to appreciate what I did have

The territorialism and desire to possess things comes directly from the ego, which strives to own and control things. Your spirit already knows you own nothing. It is a matter of realizing that your happiness does not depend on your ownership of things. They help you in your journey but they are not the journey itself.

But here's the thing--no matter how many possessions you have, you never feel secure. As soon as you get one thing, there is always something else you need.

All my happiness seems caught up in one of your smiles. - Jered Mandeville, 'Upon a Wicked Time

Vidas comunes que se ven tan sólo interrumpidas por la dicha o tragedia.

I refuse to believe that gods want to make mortals unhappy and torment them. That's what humans do. And humans are very definitely not divine.

They only remembered the good times

got to figure out before I die whether I want to be happy or I want to be right.

He grinned. "It's cheaper than that

Charlie's affable countenance stood in direct opposition to their mother's line. Her face, even with the bruises, was clearly still beautiful. She had always been so clever in the way that made people laugh rather than recoil. Relentlessly happy, Gamma had said. The kind of person people just like.

Claire picked up the picture. They were at a football game. Paul's jacket was wrapped around her shoulders. She could recall thinking how warm it felt, how reassuring. The camera had captured her laughing, mouth open, head tilted back. Ecstatically, irrevocably happy.

Durch das Leid hindurch, nicht am Leid vorbei, geht der Weg zur Freude.

If you throw money out of the window throw it out with joy. Don't say: 'one shouldn't do that' - that is bourgeois.

Then the world will be for the common people, and the sounds of happiness will reach the deepest springs. Ah! Come! People of every land, how can you not be roused.

To make the society [which of course consists of non-workers] happy and people easier under the meanest circumstances, it is requisite that great numbers of them should be ignorant as well as poor; knowledge both enlarges and multiplies our desires, and the fewer things a man wishes for, the more easily his necessities may be supplied. [3] What Mandeville

The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.

I think happiness is a bit like a cake. If you have cake every single day of your life you'll get sick of it. If you're happy everyday, you'll get sick of being happy… That's a good saying actually. Happiness is like a cake. Have too much and you'll get sick of it.