Quotes About Happiness

Serious people never stopped waging their war on joy and pleasure, and they were both relentless and tireless.

Being alive... isn't the same as feeling good about it.

Mammot's face crinkled into a wise smile.

Not that freedom ensured happiness. Indeed, to be free was to live in absence. Of responsibilities, of loyalties, of the pressures that expectation imposed.

It wouldn't be happiness then, happiness wasn't kind anyway, the way it could vanish in an instant. He might not miss it at all.

What's wrong with you?' 'Happy…ha, that's good. Very good.' He then turned to study her. 'You're eager for Skulldeath to take one of those flying leaps straight between your legs? You want to get pregnant with some prince from some Seven Cities flying squirrel tribe?

Being alive, Tattersail concluded as she approached her tent, isn't the same as feeling good about it.

She felt an enveloping happiness to be alive, a joy made stronger by the certainty that someday it would all come to an end. Afterward she felt a little foolish, and never spoke to anyone about it. Now, however, she knows she wasn't being foolish. She realizes that for no particular reason she stumbled into the core of what it is to be human. It's a rare gift to under stand that you life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.

Do they hate the idea of her, because she's different from them, and that in this difference there might be some sort of inferiority or superiority that is hers or theirs, that in the end threatens the potential happiness of everyone?

To be like Christ requires us to be full of joy and gladness.

There is not one drop of real joy to be experienced apart from him. All joy is in the Lord.

Smile, it raises your face value.

joy is evidence of God.

Heaven is where love comes out ahead.

Flow is more than an optimal state of consciousness—one where we feel our best and perform our best—it also appears to be the only practical answer to the question: What is the meaning of life? Flow is what makes life worth living.

So imagine a fire going -- wood snapping the way it does when it's a little green — the wind rattling the windows behind the curtains -- and one of those Chopin melodies that feel like sorrow and ecstasy all mixed together pouring from the keys -- and you have my idea of happiness. Or just reading, reading and lamplight, the sound of pages turning. And so you dare to be happy. You do that thing. You dare.

we are happy to be here, where the sky has always seemed a little bluer, the leaves a little greener, than in other towns we know.

The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.

Stoics like Marcus had long recommended such a practice—to concentrate entirely and exclusively on the present moment, and if that moment contained no physical suffering, then to be content.

Everyone has two lives. A second one begins when you realize you only have one…. Hug each other every day. Please know I am OK. Live your lives to the fullest and pray to be happy.

The best time of my life has been the three instances where I have been there for the birth of my children. That is, nothing [else] has ever come close.

There is no principle, built into the laws of nature, that says that theoretical physicists have to be happy.

There is no law, written in the stars which says that theoretical physicists have to be happy

And it is this merry heart, he goes on to explain, and how it must be cantered in God, for this merry heart has a holy lightness that has nothing to do with outside excitements, no, it is centred in God and happy, because it knows that not all of itself can be good, or anything, but only in and through God.