Quotes About Happiness

the only thing that makes life worthwhile is loving orher people and being loved by them. - Pia Obrian

If you're not happy, it's all on you. If you want to find your way, be your own compass.

I have trouble asking for what I want, especially when it comes to men. If you don't ask for what you want, how do you get it? Felicia asked. If you're relying on him guessing, you're sabotaging your own happiness.

Bailey Voss smiled at her daughter. Being

I suppose I'm saying that loving someone should be a positive experience for both parties. That being around the person you love shouldn't make your life worse. That when you're with that person, you are seeking to be better than you would be without him.

She ignored the fact that he would also want her to keep moving forward, to have a life, to be happy. All impossible concepts

Weddings Out of the Box.

Instead she was struck by the thought that she'd never felt worthy. That was the reason she was always rescuing the world. She was trying to earn her way into heaven. Barring that, she was trying to earn her way into happiness.

Better to keep trying until you find something that makes you happy rather than choose something now and hate your job for the next twenty years.

People should be together, preferably surrounded by those they loved.

felt like the Grinch after stealing all the presents. The Whos down in Whoville really didn't need the trappings of Christmas to celebrate the season. They were happy anyway, and so was she.

You're married, you stay married. That's the way it is. Being happy or not is up to you. A man can't make a woman happy. It's like asking a cat to grow wings. It's not in their nature. Happiness is in here.

He felt like the Grinch after stealing all the presents. The Whos down in Whoville really didn't need the trappings of Christmas to celebrate the season. They were happy anyway, and so was she.

Being happy or not is up to you. A man can't make a woman happy. It's like asking a cat to grow wings. It's not in their nature. Happiness is in here.

better than nothing" didn't seem like a goal that would make anyone happy.

What she hadn't counted on was the fact that she couldn't see a way out. Which would have been something she could manage if only she'd been able to pretend that she wasn't the problem. Because her being the problem implied the only thing standing between her and happiness was herself, and how on earth was she supposed to fix that?

Please don't let the unhappiness you knew in the past keep you from accepting happiness now.

It should always make us happy to say that loving someone and being loved by someone is worth whatever price paid.

Churchill gave the perfect riposte: "When I hear a man say that his childhood was the happiest time of his life, I think, my friend, you have had a pretty poor life.

Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.

Uma sociedade torna-se moderna quando uma das suas principais atividades é produzir e consumir imagens, quando as imagens, que influenciam extraordinariamente a determinação das nossas exigências para com a realidade e são elas mesmas um substituto cobiçado da experiência autêntica, passam a ser indispensáveis para a saúde da economia, para a estabilidade da política e para a procura da felicidade privada.

I think I feel better. I look at everything from the other end—instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.

The most precious thing is vitality—not in any sinister Lawrentian sense, but just the will+energy+appetite to do what one wants to do+not to be 'sunk' by disappointments. Aristotle is right: happiness is not to be aimed at; it is a by-product of activity aimed at.

I suddenly realized, money can't buy happiness. But it sure as shit can take it away.