Quotes About Happiness

The Blue Rose's Precepts went like this: Accept your sorrows, If you cannot change them Embrace your joys, So you don't estrange them.

Nuestros sentimientos de felicidad dependen de la comparación entre los ingresos propios y los ajenos.

The reality is that we are bodies born from other bodies, bodies feeding other bodies, bodies having sex with other bodies, bodies seeking a shoulder to lean or cry on, bodies traveling long distances to be close to other bodies, and so on. Would life be worth living without these connections and the emotions they arouse? How happy would we be, especially given that happiness, too, is an emotion?

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

remember that a gift is never deserved; if it were deserved it would be a payment. Do we wish to pay our family and friends? Of course not—so just give happily, and be happy when you too receive a gift you do not deserve.

What would Buddha do to be happy? "Seek health, the greatest blessing; follow virtue. Listen to people; read good books and learn. Be truthful; break the chain of sad attachment. These six paths lead to the greatest good." Jatakas 84

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

Maxime estaba orgulloso de su oficio, pero también sentía cierta vergûenza: "Me disgusta la idea de que toda esta felicidad que les doy a mis animales vaya a parar bajo un cuchillo. Me da la impresión de que los traiciono; pero, por otro lado, no sé hacer nada más y no me queda más remedio que ganarme la vida".

La generosidad es un regalo que uno se hace a sí mismo. No hay nada mejor para sentirse bien.

It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips.

We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles the love, not the disappointments the common sense, not the complexities.

Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy". This was the dictum of Siegbert Tarrasch, one of the greatest chessmasters of all time, after 50 years of chess playing.

Times when families laugh together are among the most precious times a family can have.

Many people work very hard at the things they do for fun.

The thing I remember best about successful people I've met all through the years is their obvious delight in what they're doing and it seems to have very little to do with worldly success. They just love what they're doing, and they love it in front of others.

Try to be a happy memory for your friends.

When at last I left him I ran all the way home. I laughed, I talked to myself, I wanted to shout and sing, and I found it very difficult not to tell my parents how happy I was, that my whole life had changed, and that I was no longer a beggar but as rich as Croesus.

Sólo hay dos cosas que relajan de verdad. Reír y hacer el amor. No estamos haciendo ni lo uno ni lo otro. –Lo sospechaba. –¿Y dormir? –preguntó Veyrenc–. ¿No relaja? –No, teniente, dormir descansa. No es lo mismo.

When you're happy you don't always have to be laughing, and when you're sad you don't have to be crying sometimes it's the opposite. You laugh when you're the most upset.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

To make a man happy, fill his hands with work.

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