Quotes About Happiness

A matter of habit, didn't Mr. Sanger think? After three days without one, the desire to read a newspaper vanished. And really, one was happier without.

What had he ever wanted that he could not buy? And if that wasn't riches he didn't know what was.

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

There's lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

I don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be happy to deal with it.

To see your friend's dreams come true, there's really nothing that can make you happier.

Love... doesn't happen every day. It doesn't happen at all for some people

Everyone who wasn't trying to park or find their car was in a festive mood. And it was contagious. As in, I needed to remember to take my vitamin C when we got back.

How many people were content with their lives? How many people were happy—happy in the moment and not in retrospect?

I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut.

In the long run, painful losses may prove much more valuable than wins. Those who are armed with a healthy attitude, and are able to draw wisdom from every experience, good or bad, are the ones who make it down the road. They are also the ones who are happier along the way.

I believe an appreciation for simplicity, the everyday—the ability to dive deeply into the banal and discover life's hidden richness—is where success, let alone happiness, emerges.

It was more like when I was little and used to run everywhere for the sheer fun of fast moving.

If only there was enough space on this tiny card to evoke my unfettered joie de vivre for what you have done. The gaiety, the mirth, the heavenly bubbling of every effusive cell that sings inside me for your kind and pithy offering.

In contrast to prior generations, conflict is no longer seen as an unavoidable, and perhaps even necessary, component of family life, but rather a referendum on each person: Does my parent limit my potential? My happiness?

Men are overly sensitive to being told what to do. If they are persuaded to understand that they're making you happy by doing more, they'll be a lot more interested than if they're doing it because they're being told.

Why not just go with it? Just walk the dog and send the tweets and eat the scones and play with the hamsters and ride the bicycles and watch the sunsets and stream the movies and never worry about any of it? I didn't know it could be that easy. I didn't know that until just now. That sounds good to me. I think I might be able to do that. Who couldn't do that? It would take somebody mentally ill not to do that, and I'm not mentally ill.