Quotes About Happiness

Until he is dead, do not yet call a man happy, but only lucky.

Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways of living happily ever after; but defeat is a poor ending to any tale, so she kept trying.

How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?

Bad people aren't happy. . . Wickedness often wears fancy clothes, dines on rich food, has money, controls armies, rules nations. . . but it never seems to know joy. Peace, laughter, trust, ease: these things flee from wickedness like sparrows from the shadow of a hawk.

The quest for power is strange in that, once the quest has begun, the destination always seems to shift ever further away. What power one has is never enough; whatever happiness one had turns to bitterness.

In one study, researchers used an iPhone app to check in on people at random points throughout the day and found that the more people were thinking about something other than what they were doing, the less happy they felt. Even when they weren't thinking about anything particularly bad.

Food makes people happy, it takes you back home, it says so many things that words can't say.

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti

I get really frustrated if people don't smile.

If there's an aspect of your life that's making you unhappy and you can escape from it, why wait? Too many people stick around and try to improve things, which often means slogging your guts out to compensate for the deficiencies of others. Personally, I'm a fan of the discard: leave it; move on.

He didn't subscribe to the view...that spirituality was a fast track to happiness. He believed the opposite was true: spiritual people suffered more than most.

Anyone who cares more about pleasing other people than about their own happiness—anyone who believes, deep down, that everyone else matters more than they do—learns fluent dishonesty at a young age.

Most people seemed to think stable equalled happy.

Perhaps the truth is that I don't want to get my happiness-mystery solution from Aristotle, Schopenhauer or Katherine. I want to find it myself. I don't want to be helped or saved by a Poirot equivalent. I want to be the Poirot in my own life.

If you want to be happier than you are now, and solve your problem, nothing needs to change about your life situation. Only your thoughts need to change. Choose new thoughts: […] none of us have any problems that we don't create with our own thoughts.

Solo tu decides ser feliz.

Shaw took my hand, his fingers lacing with mine. "Happy?" he asked. I smiled, my chest swelling with emotion. "More than I ever thought possible." He kissed me, murmuring against my lips, "Get used to it. This is only the beginning.

I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn't exist anymore.

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.