Quotes About Happiness

I never believed me mam when she finished a story with 'And they all lived happily ever after'. 'No, they didn't. I don't believe it,' I'd say. I prefered Humpty Dumpty – nice and short, and a realistic ending. He never hurt anyone, but he had a little accident and died. Shit happens. That's life, innit.

The belief in an independently existent self is a mistaken perception with serious consequences, for all afflictions are rooted in a fundamental misconception about the nature of the self. Grasping at the mistaken perceptions of oneself and other phenomena leads to constant frustrations, anxieties, and unhappiness. Understanding the illusory nature of the self allows one to experience things 'as they are,' without interference from conceptual constructs.

For example, do we think that we have to HAVE money so we can DO the fun things in life that we want to do, so we can BE happy? In reality it's just the other way around. We are better off BE-ing first, so that we can DO, so that we can HAVE. HAVING is a natural by-product of BE-ing.

When you are BE-ing the kind of person that is most desirable for you to BE, then you will automatically DO the best you can DO—then you will HAVE the peace and whatever else is most desirable in life for you to HAVE.

A smile is one of the best ways we can express the joy God has placed within us.

Happiness, like life itself, was as fragile as a bird's heartbeat, as fleeting as the bluebells in the wood, but while it lasted

Happiness, like life itself, was as fragile as a bird's heartbeat, as fleeting as the bluebells in the wood, but while it lasted, Fox Corner was an Arcadian dream.

There was now and it was followed by another now. If you were lucky.

Life is too precious to be unhappy.' Ursula wondered how many people across London were saying the same thing that night. Perhaps in less salubrious surroundings. And there would be others, of course, who would be saying the same words to cleave to what they already had, not to discard it on a whim. Suddenly

Life is too precious to be unhappy.

How wonderfully, joyously, untrammeled he had been then in his happiness. She thought it was fixed for ever, she didn't realize that childhood happiness dissolves away. If she had realized that Archie wasn't going to be that sunny innocent child for ever she would have laid up every moment as treasure.

She] went around with a beatific smile on her face that could be very irritating if you yourself weren't feeling beatific.

She would be happy -- but not excessively so....

It turned out that love was everything after all 

The mistake,' Sylvie said, 'is thinking that love equates with happiness.')

Happiness, like life itself, was as fragile as a bird's heartbeat, as fleeting as the bluebells in the wood

O happy, happy each man whom predestined fate leads to the holy rite of hill and mountain worship.

A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy; mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-minded.

I couldn't have found a better man than Brad. He still opens doors for me and brings me flowers. He's the sweetest goofball on the planet.

We see how much a man has, and therefore we envy him; did we see how little he enjoys, we should rather pity him.

Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drouned himsel amang the nappy.

Pleasure never comes sincere to man; but lent by heaven upon hard usury.

Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.

Idealism and science continue to function in separate compartments; and yet 'the happiness of man on earth' depends upon their combination.