Quotes About Happiness

Achor's studies emphasize that we have been culturally programmed to believe that if we reach our goals (when we get into Harvard, lose twenty pounds, get a high-paying job, etc.), then we'll be happy. However, this formula for happiness is actually inverted: happiness fuels success, not the other way around.

However, as pursuit of happiness morphed into pursuit of material, all of the promises became compromised. So what went wrong? How did this happen?

My Definite Chief Aim I, Bruce Lee, will be the first highest paid Oriental super star in the United States. In return, I will give the most exciting performances and render the best of quality in the capacity of an actor. Starting 1970 I will achieve world fame and from then onward till the end of 1980 I will have in my possession $10,000,000. I will live the way I please and achieve inner harmony and happiness.

The more we value things, the less we value our selves. — We should devote ourselves to being self-sufficient and must not depend upon the external rating by others for our happiness. So it is true that the more we value things, the less we value our self. The more we depend upon others for esteem, the less we are self-sufficient.

The spirit is strengthened in sorrow. — Happiness is good for the body, but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

Then he smiled, and his face looked for a moment

It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive.

For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive

cause down the shore everything's all right

Burn happiness, cousin. This is the Kosmos talking. Are you on the side of life, or aren't you?

I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.

I wake up laughing every day. I get a kick out of life.

Fairy tales are loved by the child not because the imagery he finds in them conforms to what goes on within him, but because--despite all the angry, anxious thoughts in his mind to which the fairy tale gives body and specific content--these stories always result in a happy outcome, which the child cannot imagine on his own.

Sada se ?esto glasno i cvrkutavo smejao, prosto se zanosio od smeha, ili je kucao u krevet i sam sebi odgovarao "molim" u raznim intonacijama, po ?itave sate.

Yet when our eyes see the full rainbow in Scripture—the completeness of God's plan—and know by faith that our lives are a part of God's design no matter what happens, then we can take whatever comes because we know that we are for the praise of his glory.

I have a lovely family who supports me and it's great.

Love is not as important as good health. You cannot be in love if you're not healthy. You can't appreciate it.

Christmas makes me happy no matter what time of year it comes around.

The greatest joys are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in what we hope for.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

The simple things in life are the greatest gifts.

A life of success comes from seeking a life of beauty.