Quotes About Happiness

You must remember," she said, putting a bony hand on mine, "that true stories do not always end as we would wish them to. Would you like to hear the truth of what happened, or shall I make something up for you just to keep you happy?

She loved singing—and soccer

You know it is the most relaxed thing when you when you sit with a best friend and you know there is nothing you have to tell him to empty your mind. We just stayed there together, silent in the dusk like this, and we were quite happy.

The spiritual values that are essential to human happiness are being lost or made to seem trivial. Everything is buy, earn, sell

The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control or explanations or once-and-for-all solutions. To garden well is to be happy amid the babble of the objective world, untroubled by its refusal to be reduced by our ideas of it, its indomitable rankness.

The scientists haven't tested the hypothesis yet, but I'm willing to bet that when they do they'll find an inverse correlation between the amount of time people spend worrying about nutrition and their overall health and happiness.

To think of some of the most delicious components of foods as toxins, as nutritionism has taught us to do in the case of fat, does little for our happiness as eaters.

The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.

Better to marry unhappily 100 times than to live happily forever in sin.

Everything's been great since college.

Laughter is the only currency I've really ever known. Ever since I was a boy.

I just have to do what it is going to make me happy, first and foremost - what is honest and what is sincere. Anybody that listens will hopefully connect with that.

When I think about my new CD, the word 'joy' comes to mind. I sincerely hope that each listener will feel the earth, spirit, and aggressive creativity emanating from this album.

I can say with full sincerity that I am happy. I'm happy because I'm doing what I love and I'm not selling out.

I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.

I sing like a lark.

I sing around the house, in the shower.

I sing just for fun.

I have always believed people can sing themselves, even if they can't sing well, into a place of joy and happiness.

I'm just going to do things that I like to do, sing songs that I like to sing.

I discovered at the age of five that I could sing, and I realised people liked it. The sound that came out made people happy, so I kept doing it.

When I began singing, it was the first time I was happy in my life. As a baby, I would stop crying when I heard a great singer.

When I'm outside gardening, it can be so inspiring. I think of words and melodies. It's peaceful. Every singer-songwriter should find something outside of music that makes them as happy as gardening makes me.

When people say the words 'singer-songwriter,' I think they have an image in their heads of someone with an acoustic guitar who is a bit woe-is-me. I'd like to think that I'm not one of those. I'm quite a happy person.