Quotes About Happiness

You will never feel proud of your work if you find no joy within it; your best work is always joyful work.

The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love?

But where is the root of suffering? He begins talking about the happiness of suffering, about the beauty of suffering. Suffering is not dirty, suffering is not pitiable. No, suffering is great because suffering makes people great...It is impossible to convince him that suffering is something unworthy.

esse querido plano interior; o segredo da felicidade é não termos escrúpulos para connosco e termos o máximo de atenções para com todos os outros; de resto, o próprio tempo disse já adeus a todos os piratas da alma

Wise, because wisdom is to be in love with life, whereas foolishness is to be ashamed of love

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

being in love is to be relieved of gravity.

His laughter was the result of euphoria at finding himself alive and above ground.

These moments, here in this house, your lovely house, should not be sullied by thoughts of Death; they are a time for Life.

The empress was a dark flower herself, dressed not in red, as all the other women, but resplendent in a gold so muted, it seemed almost black. Varencienne wondered if any emotion surged through Tatrini's closed heart. Was she thinking of her own wedding day, all those years before, when her husband had been only a prince and the empire a smaller collection of lands? Had she been happy then, dizzy with girlish anticipation, or had she felt as Varencienne did now: resigned and cold?

I felt as if something hung there in the back of my mind, waiting to tarnish whatever happiness I might find. Is it safer to be unhappy? Nothing ever wants to take that away.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Happiness comes from the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

We will never be happy until we make God the source of our fulfillment and the answer to our longings. He is the only one who should have power over our souls.

This feeling of power, it's happiness to sit in a cottage by the Danube among six women who think I'm semi-idiot, and to know that in Paris, the headquarters of intelligence, 500 people are sitting dead-quiet in the auditorium and are foolish enough to expose their brains to my powers of suggestion. Some revolt! But many will go away with my spores in their gray matter. They will go home pregnant with the seed of my soul, and they will breed my brood.

To a happy war!' laughter echoed with all the insane glee of an army of psychopaths.

To a happy war!" Their laughter flowed out into the night and reached into the pass through the Dancing Maidens, where it echoed around the mountains with all the insane glee of an army of pyschopaths.

He turned the music up loud. So what if it would deafen him? It made him happy. Like it had so many times before.

A meow massages the heart.

It's—it's all right, Peter. I half-saw this coming. Mrs. Cardoman's boy just came out, and he's so much happier now. He's even talking about marrying his—partner, I guess you call it.

Her craziness was happily wed to her intellect. There are no reasonable geniuses in this world, I am convinced.

I decided to practice revenge in a calmer way, by living well.

It was an exciting community, where we lived in Washington. The basic feeling—and I don't think this is just nostalgia—was one of excitement, of achievement, of happiness. Life was important, life was significant.

Love Is What I Got