Quotes About Happiness

Post Mortem Conspectu" A brown, fat babe sitting in the lotus, And you were glad and laughing With a laughter not of this world. It is good to splash in the water And laughter is the end of all things.

I remember hearing in a talk that the more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.

In un paese dove ognuno poteva essere felice, volere diversamente era una trasgressione, agire diversamente un delitto.

The overwhelming majority of women will be happier in the long run by marrying an ordinary man and having children than by seeking sexual thrills, ascending the corporate heights or grinding out turgid tracts on gender theory. A woman develops an emotional bond with her mate through the sexual act itself; this is why arranged marriages (contrary to Western prejudice) are often reasonably happy. Romantic courtship has its charms, but is finally dispensable; marriage is not dispensable.

I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

Life is always sad. That's what makes suicide so tempting because life is all that we really have and haven't. Death makes us equals, too, because the foul and the good all die. The past, the present, and the future-what escape is there from these? None-and yet sometimes we are life's happy victims.

Ma chère enfant, savez-vous que votre sourire est comme une citation ? Il est entre guillemets.

I see now how things even up, how they are squared away, and how they balance under the law of love and justice. No year of life is emotionally, spiritually or even materially, all drought or all rainfall; nor is it all sun. The road turns a little every day, and one day there's a sudden twist we didn't dream was there, and for every loss there is somewhere a gain, for every grief a happiness, for every deprivation a giving.

A joy in living, a natural expression of the will to survive all personal disaster, can be constant despite whatever changes take place. Some fortunate people are born with it and others acquire it through learning and growth.

I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.

But nothing in life was set in stone and nothing in life is promised us. Not happiness, not joy, not love. Everything was variable and mutable and inconstant.

How can you stay worried when someone gives you warm chocolate chip cookies?

I also know about running away," I said, "when staying around is so much harder. And I know the happiness, the"-I searched for a word and had to settle on- "the joy when sticking around and fighting things mean I get to keep the people I love near me.

Money didn't buy happiness, but it did let me have pretty things.

all my life I have fancied a beautiful man by the name of murthaza he makes me happy when I am sad. he makes me feel things I have always dreamed of -harry james

The rest of us can find happiness in misery.

Just want to be a footnote in someone else's happiness.

I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.

Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.

She said it was beautiful to be loved, and that it made everything on earth look brighter.

Just like your daddy taught you to make it," he said. His big belly laugh was the sweetest sound in the world. She would have made a deal with the devil himself in exchange for hearing that sound every day.

Her daddy wrapped her up in a big bear hug and swung her around like he used to do when she was a little girl. Tiana clung to his big frame, soaking in the safety and security and love he embodied. Her throat tightened with emotions that threatened to overwhelm her. "That felt like old times, baby girl." "It felt like the best times," Tiana answered.

I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life.