Quotes About Happiness

As women, we have more of a tendency to be people-pleasers, and I know a lot of women who are not vocal about what makes them happy.

Life is very beautiful.

Only by being present can you be happy. Too much attention to the past and the future takes the now away. And once it's gone, you never get it back.

Happiness--a small-scale, endearing, harmonious happiness--surely dwelt here beneath the low-powered lamps in the tiny rooms of these houses. A small-scale happiness and a modest harmony: let a man cry out, let him rage, let him howl with grief with all the power of which he was capable, what more than these could he ever hope to gain in this life?

Taiki was watching the kings talk, feeling the kind of happiness that can only come after a long sorrow.

So very many times over the next three years i heard her laughter - no silver bells or sweet rippling sounds was her laughter, but like a five-year-old's bellow of delight, a cross between a puppy's yelp, a motor-bike and a bicycle pump.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.

The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence.

My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Men hold two views of what happiness consists in, viz, having, and doing. To possess much, or to do some great thing, constitutes the sum of human blessedness according to popular theory.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

And we were angry and poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print.

Simcha, Rabbi Tatz said, is "the experience of the soul that comes when you are doing what you should be doing.

Minimalism allows you to live without fear, worry, guilt, or depression. You have the mindset to experience real freedom when you live a minimalist lifestyle.

Men make their own happiness, and a man may be respected even though only a slave.

Every - real - happiness - for - man - can - arise - exclusively - only - from - some - unhappiness - also - real - which - he - has - already - experienced.

Me sentía vivir en ella, y ella vivía solo para mí. Su sonrisa me llenaba de una beatitud infinita; la ondulación de su voz, tan dulce y, sin embargo, tan firmemente timbrada, me hacía vibrar de alegría y de amor.

Bebamos, amemos! ¡Esto es la sabiduría!

The Curé Noive had a sister who acted as his housekeeper, a lady with a moustache, whose piety was astringent, and who fostered a splenetic God in a heart which was outraged at anything gracious, tender, or lovable that life might offer. There are such cross-grained natures, made spiteful and furious by anything that looks like happiness.