Quotes About Happiness

Dogs are so easy to please—let them out when they're in, and in when they're out, and they'll reward you with sloppy, wet kisses for days.

That's how it is with infants. The minute the pain's gone, so are the tears. If more people would do that, the world would be a happier place.

Did you know a child laughs an average of three hundred times a day, and an adult just three?

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! —Jane Austen (1798)

used to say you'll never be happy with what you want until you can be happy with what you've got," Cleo

Peace was a relative thing. It didn't have so much to do with where a person lived as how he lived.

heart—life had grace notes. These were moments so sweet that they could be tucked like the smallest of keepsakes, never to be forgotten. She

your smile is my sunshine.

Dolce is Italian for sweet, and it applies not just to music and food, but also to life itself. Just as every meal should end with something sweet, so should every life be filled with il dolce .

They'd had nothing—a rented spot in a trailer park and a car that was older than Mama herself. And yet Margie had never felt deprived. There was a richness to their lives that had nothing to do with the bank account. Their world was built on a foundation of love and trust between the two of them.

I want you to look at me and see no other than the man you love. I want you to feel a start of pure joy when you awaken in the morning and find me beside you. I want you to wish you could rush the sunset so that we can be together sooner.

Maybe, she thought, the secret to a happy life was learning to get through the unhappy periods intact.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with." —Mark Twain

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly." —Buddha

I don't want her to feel as if she's responsible for my happiness. Good lord, who would wish that on a child?

Now she realized that the key to happiness had less to do with setting up housekeeping with an appropriate spouse and more, far more, to do with finding someone who gave one confidence and peace and passion, gifts so rich she had no words for them.

If you never did, you should. These things are fun, and fun is good. The statement was attributed to Theodore Seuss Geisel—better known as Dr. Seuss.

life had taught him long ago that fear and happiness could not coexist.

there are some things you don't have a choice about, but there's plenty you can choose. Like happiness. Like focusing on the positive.

The pigment must be mixed with the tears of spinsters of good family, who must live long lives of impeccable virtue and die without ever having had a day of true happiness.

Those hours of opium happiness which the Doctor and I spent together in secret were regulated with a scientific accuracy. We did not blindly smoke the drug of paradise, and leave our dreams to chance. While smoking, we carefully steered our conversation through the brightest and calmest channels of thought.

You are somebody's reason to smile.

the glow in Libby's cheeks. When there

I felicitate Richard Plantagenet." "I'm positively beginning to like the guy.