Quotes About Happiness

Laughter is eternity if joy is real.

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

It is the liveliest time in life, the happiest of the irresponsible times in life. Mothers echo its happiness—nothing is like a mother who has a son home from college, except another mother with a son home from college. Bloom does actually come upon these mothers; it is a visible thing; and they run like girls, walk like athletes, laugh like sycophants. Yet they give up their sons to the daughters of other mothers, and find it proud rapture enough to be allowed to sit and watch.

Todo, en aquellos años, era distinto; hasta el sabor del sueño (yo, quizá, nunca fui plenamente feliz, pero es sabido que la desventura requiere paraísos perdidos.) No hay hombre que no aspire a la plentiud, es decir a la suma de experiencias de que un hombre es capaz. No hay hombre que no tema ser defraudado de alguna parte de ese patrimonio infinito.

Le malheur n'est jamais pur, pas plus que le bonheur. Un mot permet d'organiser une autre manière de comprendre le mystère de ceux qui s'en sont sortis : la résilience, qui désigne la capacité à réussir, à vivre, à se développer en dépit d'adversité.

Quand on est malheureux, le plaisir nous fair peur.

Quand on est malheureux, le plaisir nous fait peur.

Personne ne prétend que la résilience est une recette de bonheur. C'est une stratégie de lutte contre le malheur qui permet d'arracher du plaisir à vivre, malgré le murmure des fantômes du fond de sa mémoire.

El sentido procura una dicha duradera y transmisible, mientras que el placer solitario dura lo que dura un relámpago. Sin embargo, cuando el placer se une al sentido, la vida hace que merezca la pena partir piedras por ella.

de reactivar el recuerdo de un momento feliz en el que estábamos protegidos por nuestra afectuosa familia.

And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.

They all laughed and clapped, taking it for a deliberate witticism, while he had no idea what he was saying, so great was his foreboding of misfortune and his feeling of powerlessness over the future, however great his thirst for goodness and his capacity for happiness.

Unshared happiness is not happiness.

Estoy desesperado y a la vez soy horriblemente feliz. Resulta muy agradable desear algo hasta ese punto.

A mí lo que me interesa no es la felicidad de todos los hombres, sino la de cada uno de ellos.

Je t'ai déjà dit... Il la prit sur ses genoux. De nouveau, il se sentait complètement heureux. - Je t'ai déjà dit que je t'aimais bien, en gros et en détail. - Alors, détaille, murmura Chloé, en se laissant aller dans les bras de Colin, câline comme une couleuvre.

his pink tongue lolling happily from his mouth.

the shortest distance between two people was a good laugh.

As far as he was concerned, he had the three necessary ingredients to happiness: something to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to.

Whoever said money couldn't buy happiness hadn't had billions of it to throw around.

The life of a plural wife, she'd found, was a life lived under constant comparison, a life spent wondering. Sitting across from her sister-wives at Sunday dinner, the platters and serving dishes floating past like hovercraft, the questions were almost inescapable; Who of us is the most happy? Which of us is his one true love? Who does he desire the most?

Come freely, go safely and leave something of the happiness you bring.

If that other fellow doesn't know his happiness, well, he'd better look for it soon, or he'll have to deal with me.

Welcome to my house! Enter freely. Go safely, and leave something of the happiness you bring!