Quotes About Happiness

God forbid that there be any truth in an opinion which threatens us with a real misery that is never to end, but is often and endlessly to be interrupted by intervals of fallacious happiness. For what happiness can be more fallacious and false than that in whose blaze of truth we yet remain ignorant that we shall be miserable, or in whose most secure citadel we yet fear that we shall be so?

Doth then, O Lord God of truth, whoso knoweth these things, therefore please Thee? Surely unhappy is he who knoweth all these, and knoweth not Thee: but happy whoso knoweth Thee, though he know not these. And whoso knoweth both Thee and them is not the happier for them, but for Thee only, if, knowing Thee, he glorifies Thee as God, and is thankful, and becomes not vain in his imaginations.

How then do I seek Thee, O Lord? For when I seek Thee, my God, I seek a happy life. I will seek Thee, that my soul may live. For my body liveth by my soul; and my soul by Thee.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

It is the law of this life: sacrifice and joy go side by side

Do not be depressed. Do not let your weakness make you impatient. Instead, let the serenity of your spirit shine through your face. Let the joy of your mind burst forth.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

The happy man in this life needs friends.

So I was pet free, and not unhappily so, until Aimee showed up the morning of my last day of being twenty-nine with a teacup-sized, deep red, wriggling puppy. It was love at first sight, and I'm grateful for her serene and placid presence. Not to mention the fact that she is the perfect dog. Never naughty, never a sick day in her life, never has an accident in the house or chews anything she oughtn't. She is essentially the non-dog dog, practically a person, and I can take her anywhere.

Whatever. Life is too short, and cake is delicious, and there is nothing wrong with taking up some space in the world.

She fixed a smile that she hoped looked authentic. Pretending to be content continued to be hard work.

A whole life can go by being too busy and waiting for "when." Living in the future means barely existing in the present. If you can't enjoy things now, when will you magically develop the tools to enjoy things in the future?

Don't marry a rich man. Marry a good man. He will spend his life trying to keep you happy. No rich man can buy that!

Life doesn't get much better than this.

Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.

Churchill, put down his cigar and agreed, "When I hear a man say that his childhood was the happiest time of his life, I think, my friend you have had a pretty poor life.

Clearly the secret of happiness...is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping.

Happiness is a private good, justice a public good.

People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.

There's an inherent limit to the stress that any material can bear. Water has its boiling point, metals their melting points. The elements of the spirit behave the same way. Happiness can reach a pitch so great that any further happiness can't be felt. Pain, despair, humiliation, disgust, and fear are no different. Once the vessel is full, the world can't add to it.

I realized that there was no point in denying oneself a pleasure because it was denied another, in refusing to allow oneself to be happy because someone else was unhappy.

But I see nothing miraculous about it. Nothing makes one as healthy as happiness, and there is no greater happiness than making someone else happy.

Even if I had gone further than in all honesty I should have done, my lies, those lies born of pity, had made her happy; and to make a person happy could never be a crime.

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