Quotes About Happiness

saber demasiado es incompatible con la felicidad.

Se imagina que sabe qué es vivir con alguien que era fuerte, que era cariñoso, que era cortés. Que hablaba, que soñaba, que bromeaba, que comía y que reía y cantaba. Que estaba vivo, y feliz, y que era una presencia permanente, un motivo de alegría para los que le rodeaban.

Tengo muy claro que lo que estoy cometiendo es un error muy grande. Que saber demasiado es incompatible con la felicidad.

Es curioso cómo la felicidad pura, sin adulterar, no deja poso en nuestros corazones, mientras que las aguas turbias de la tristeza manchan por doquier.

Solo en un tiempo todavía distante, quizás la racionalidad logre controlar los sentimientos más delirantes, y la loca ansia de inmortalidad personal dará paso a una resignación serena, a una sabiduría epicúrea, solo preocupada por la breve vida en este mundo y el disfrute de los momentos de alegría y de goce que las propias acciones y la suerte brinden.

era de esas personas que cultivan las emociones pasajeras, y de las cuales no sabes si son irresponsables de ser felices o si son felices de ser irresponsables.

False joy, because you are merely in time, as they say, and not in the soul!

Since the lovely morning of that day, we were sweethearts.

La muerte no se reparte como si fuera un bien. Nadie anda en busca de tristezas.

Stop worrying so much. Don't worry about me; don't worry about you. Seize the moment. Enjoy. Let tomorrow take care of itself.

I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. Charlotte Brontë.

us were glad to see her get married

What kind of wedding do you want?" "The one with a groom.

People argue themselves out of their pleasures

We shall live, love and be happy as mortals can be

The glitter of the great world, you know, is only so much froth and spume: you may look in vain for happiness there.

Misery is home ground, and she has only ever made excursions into the far country of happiness.

There was something in front of her, perhaps happiness: Mary hesitated, like someone in a fairy-tale being offered a tempting dish that might be poisoned. Was that it? Again she didn't know. She disapproved of fairy-tale. They were not rational.

Joy is the sense that we are where we should be. It is the firm belief that we are one with God no matter what is happening.

Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive production of gender identities are oppressive?

People I had never seen before flocked in, their faces showing a longing you never saw for cake. People's eyes lit up for a cupcake, cake seemed to signal celebration. But their eyes got filmy, watery, misty when we handed them a slice of pie. Pie was memory. Nostalgia. Pie made people recall simpler, maybe happier times.

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

Happy!" She looks at him. "Oh, Ward! You give us all the definition, will you? But first you'd better check on those kids. Every day, to make sure they're good and safe, that

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.