Quotes About Happiness

If you want one year of happiness, grow grain. If you want 10 years of happiness, grow trees. If you want 100 years of happiness, grow people.

Writing a book brings a single, irreducible truth right out to the edges of a person: there is no place to be, there is no place in this world, it is impossible to be happy.

all men of a certain age tell this story, and they give themselves away by always using the same fruit. I have yet to meet the father who will look his child in the eye and say, "I was happy just to get some seedless grapes." But

One is either perfectly present and entirely innocent of one's own contentment (which is remarkably like not being content) or one is aware, and thus distanced, and no longer at home or happy. Am I wrong?

Utopia exists only in one's childhood life.

God's love is here to stay and thats what gives the God girl the strength to rise above the mess and smile

Only adults weep with joy. Children don't. They haven't learned how rare moments of true happiness are.

The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way." Which is a roundabout way

Now I know better. The secret to aging more cheerfully is to play like a child.

If we all knew that we were all perverts, we might be a lot happier.

as sad things can also have other sides, miraculous ones. If you don't feel sadness, there are types of happiness and compassion and torture and insight you will never know. Sadness has all sorts of truths that allow you to experience joy.

She loves the sun and the sea. She is her happiest there.

You see, things being good has nothing to do with how you feel outside, it is all to do with how you are inside.

Everything's just so good now, because, as Dad says, 'It's coming from the inside, not the outside.

Está probado por las encuestas que la felicidad no la da el amor, la riqueza o el poder, sino la búsqueda de metas inalcanzables: ¿y qué es una dieta si no es esto?

There was the whole world; if she loved him like this, nothing could make them wretched; his love would be enough for her, - and for him hers was an empire.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. It's what the sunflowers do.

Your success and happiness lie in you.

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

True happines is not attained through self gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose

Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never be made lazy or indifferent by an excess of happiness. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Happiness should be a means of accomplishment, like health, not an end in itself.