Quotes About Happiness

feel good when life matches our vision of what we think could and should happen.

Our brains much prefer it when we're able to predict the future with accuracy, and so we're inclined to create cultural stories and patterns that allow us to do that. Living happily ever after is one such collective pattern that grants us a sense of predictability and certainty in life and holds the standard for societal harmony.

Clearly, having friends improves our lives. And best friends? They make every good thing even better.

Joy means so much more when shared with you.

At the start of it he'd felt only a sudden overpowering wish to make her happy. To see her smile again.

the happy weight of secret love is just as heavy as sadness.

A hug makes you feel good all day.

The more I let go of the life I'd planned, the more I began to love the life I had.

The only sweeter than union is reunion.

No matter what anyone "does to you" along your path to either personal or professional happiness, that person cannot interfere with your destiny. Only you are in control of that, within the master plan created with God.

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting for one at the end of a long day makes the day happier.

Heaven is light to me, light-hearted, and full of holy laughter.

Allein schon das Wissen, dass einen am Ende eines langen Tages ein gutes Buch erwartet, macht diesen Tag zu einem glücklicheren.«

Because happiness isn't made of fun. It's made of solid, real things. It's made of paychecks and clean clothing, and hot food and healthy children, and a man who can look you in the eye when he comes home because he has nothing to hide. It's not so rare. In fact, it's so common people don't notice it. They look for roses when they should be looking for indoor plumbing.

It's amazing how lonely a place where you were once happy can become.

Live, Monsieur Tissot. I'd like to live in great comfort. And peace.' And then she added, quite to her surprise, 'With no one to tell me what to do or how to do it.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own. Harold Coffin

I have made a great many mistakes, but had I not made them, I would not have learned the value of honor. I would not have learned to love and be loved. I would not have learned that I am happiest when I am working. And that I will never lose my brothers and sisters, even if we are apart, because as a family, we are one.

Some people pursue happiness, others create it.

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do. —Bob Dylan musician

My only concern is your happiness, and I think Greyden makes you happy." "He does." She frowned. "And oddly miserable at times." She was pulled into a warm, sweetly scented embrace. "That's love, dearest. Welcome to it.

I once told you that all actions have a cost, we simply must decide if they are worth paying. If you do not act in the best interest of your own happiness you will regret—and pay for it—for the rest of your life.

Nuns who looked sad were, she pointed out, the greatest stumbling block to vocations because young people, like God, loved a cheerful giver.