Quotes About Happiness

The ones who send out the eternally unchanging prayer. The winged ones flying in the heavens... flapping the wings of happiness, full of love. It's a premonition that's almost like certainty. Someday there will be a chance meeting. We're sure to be drawn to each other. This is not the end. Beloved ones gathered by fate. Neither god nor human. The ones born wrapped in a dazzling love. They are called angels.

Happiness is the attempt to escape from misery.

there anything more important in your life than living in bliss? Then understand that time is not your friend.

Because you constantly seek to satisfy your ego's every wish, you live in constant anticipation. Because you seek to wipe away its sorrows, you seek desperately for its happiness. Because you seek to maintain its reputation, you are acutely sensitive to the sharp opinions of others. Everything that you do is done in the interest of its welfare. It has made you a slave. Even the need for happiness is a great burden. You would not have this need if you had no manufactured self.

was initially happy, then with the onset of consciousness unhappy, then with the advent of adolescence wretchedly miserable, and finally, in the last throws of my domestic incarceration, convinced I was born in the wrong place and had to escape at all cost. In other words, an ordinary childhood followed by an ordinary adolescence,

I was initially happy, then with the onset of consciousness unhappy, then with the advent of adolescence wretchedly miserable, and finally, in the last throws of my domestic incarceration, convinced I was born in the wrong place and had to escape at all cost. In other words, an ordinary childhood followed by an ordinary adolescence,

Were they happy years, do you think?' I ask Grégoire. 'Well, if I'm not happy now, I must have been happy then. When I was at the Lycée, I wanted to be in France, to be free, to be myself. Now that I'm in France, I wish I could come back here, to be at home again. I feel more connected with the past than with the present. Is that normal?' 'I don't know,' I say. 'Probably not. But at least you feel connected with something.

Life is full of happiness and tears be strong and have faith.

The key to adopting minimalism is to focus on what is important in your life - not the 'stuff', but the 'real' things that bring fulfillment and happiness to your life. Once we honestly assess and focus upon what is really important to us, then we can begin to eliminate the clutter and stress in our lives.

We need to have intimate, enduring bonds; we need to be able to confide; we need to feel that we belong; we need to be able to get support, and just as important for happiness, to give support. We need many kinds of relationships; for one thing, we need friends.

'Fiancee' is a very fun word to say, because I never thought I would have a fiancee or be a fiancee. Sometimes when I would introduce myself and say, 'This is my girlfriend Melanie,' it wasn't always clear what I meant. Now I get to say, 'This is my fiancee Melanie.'

People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.

My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I've already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with me.

I've been really lucky as an inventor. I'm the happiest guy you're ever going to meet. And my dad died before he realized anybody in the family would maybe, hopefully, make something out of themselves.

I've made some investments during my career that I'm happy with, so my life, talking financially, is definitely OK.

My philosophy is, involve your family in whatever you do. Nothing gives you more joy.

I'm very happy to be involved with great filmmakers.

One would like to say in the aftermath of the 2008 election that everyone lived happily ever after. But the American drama, especially when it involves race, is always more complicated than that.

As you get older, you realize happiness involves a lot of problems.

We should be happy. We should be enjoying that there is all this bounty. Somebody can take an iPod and have all the world's music at their beck and call in an instant. What an amazing thing!

I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.

I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.

There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.

We grew up in Woolton, Liverpool. We didn't have much, but it was irrelevant. We played out a lot with all the kids on the street.