Quotes About Happiness

I absolutely cannot ignore all that I have endured and achieved by settling for a passive life as Adam's Rib. Some may choose to call me a revel, but I am simply a woman searching for a happier life. One in which I am allowed to love myself, and not sacrifice that love in favor of society's values.

Man is supreme lord and master Of his own ruin and disaster, Controls his fate, but nothing less In ordering his own happiness: For all his care and providence Is too feeble a defence To render it secure and certain Against the injuries of Fortune; And oft, in spite of all his wit, Is lost by one unlucky hit, And ruined with a circumstance, And mere punctilio of a chance.

O, high the happy bosom heaves When love is in the dancer!

When a man achieves a fair measure of harmony within himself and his family circle, he achieves peace; and a nation made up of such individuals and groups is a happy nation. As the harmony of a star in its course is expressed by rhythm and grace, so the harmony of a man's life-course is expressed by happiness; this, I believe, is the prime desire of mankind.

All commands from your lips are sweet, I say, and now have you not said the sweetest of all? Marry you...!

In the midst of pain and urgent trouble we can not realize the supreme happiness of being loved — sweetest and deepest of all meditations....

No joys are there that can compare With dancing, prancing everywhere; I'd sooner wear, I do declare, A dancer's wreath than crowns so rare.

What makes the birds so happy when I'm sad? The irritating creatures!

Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it—that you are it.

Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!

Después de todo, ése era el secreto de la felicidad: disfrutar de cada momento dentro de sus condiciones propias, sin imaginarse otras.

Ruben Dario has said that the sorrow of the gods lies in not reaching death. As for men, if from the moment they are conscious, they could be sure of reaching death, they could be happy forever, But unfortunately, men are never sure of dying: they feel an obscure desire and a yearning to die but they always doubt that they will die. The sorrow of men, we declare, lies in never being certain of death.

Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness, than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.

How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.

I have learned that you can go anywhere you want to go and do anything you want to do and buy all the things that you want to buy and meet all the people that you want to meet and learn all the things that you desire to learn and if you do all these things but are not madly in love: you have still not begun to live.

The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.

I created you while I was happy, while I was sad,with so many incidents, so many details.And, for me, the whole of you has been transformed into feeling.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.