Quotes About Happiness

Happy people have neither age nor memory, they have no need of the past.

The idea of my heart dancing with delight was far too good to pass up.

Your coming here...made me so very happy. I wanted to keep dancing with you forever. That we should be so sad now...means we are very dear to each other. But really, there is nothing to be sad about...nothing at all.

Snowbébé, you've probably forgotten by now, but... Once, you looked at my body—my hairless body—and said it was pretty. So you see, your words made me so very happy. I always thought I was unattractive...

Your coming here...made me so very happy. I wanted to keep dancing with you forever. That we should be so sad now...means we are very dear to each other.

The most precious things in life are not those you get for money. —Albert Einstein

When the question is Why do you want to be happy? the answer is simple and definitive. We pursue happiness because it is in our nature to do so. When the answer to a question is Because it will make me happy, nothing can challenge the validity and finality of the answer. Happiness is the highest on the hierarchy of goals, the end toward which all other ends lead.

When we fail to attain a desired outcome, we often extrapolate from that experience the belief that we have no control over our lives or over certain parts of it. Such thinking leads to despair. Timon, unhappy as a rat racer, equally unhappy

Happiness grows less from the passive experience of desirable circumstances than from involvement in valued activities and progress toward one's goals. —

Time-use may be the determinant of well-being that is the most susceptible to improvement.

Les gens gentils réussissent mieux que les autres. Le plus beau quand on s'intéresse aux autres, c'est qu'on se détourne de ses propres soucis, ses propres angoisses et ca coute beaucoup moins chère qu'une psychothérapie.

not money or prestige, should be regarded as the ultimate currency—the currency by which we take measure of our lives.

We no longer accumulate to live; we live to accumulate.

It is doubtful whether any heavier curse could be imposed on man than the complete gratification of all his wishes without effort on his part, leaving nothing for his hopes, desires or struggles."6

Para vivir una vida plena y gratificante —una vida feliz—, tenemos que permitirnos experimentar toda la gama de emociones humanas. En otras palabras, tenemos que concedernos el permiso para ser humanos.

Your life might be easier if you were. A fool for love is happier than a Dog with a heart that's all leather.

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Your place in life you can always change, whether you have the gift or not. But you cannot change what the gods have made you. The sooner you accept that, the happier you'll be.

The wolf who sings alone is not happy.

Why hope to be happy? Before, it had been like a tide of water, (life), not especially fast, passing over her. Not happy. Not unhappy. Indifferent. There was music and there were books. The rest was an interruption. Live second-hand.

This was where his happiness lay, to sit in the great library and to read all things.

The young woman, who was no one's lady now save her own, pealed with a vibrant and wholesome mirth.

You haven't lived till you have laughed and made others laugh.

Was this happiness? Happiness had come to him on a bare, rocky island, without any kind of warning. He hadn't done anything to bring it about. He could even make sharp-witted remarks.