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Quotes About Happiness

I tend to think the good outweighs the bad. Then again, I try to be a glass-half-full person. Although I stand by my theory that if you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid in your glass, you are either a cliche or an alcoholic.
~ Caprice Crane
In America I have seen the freest and best educated of men in circumstances the happiest to be found in the world, yet it seemed to me that a cloud habitually hung on their brow, and they seemed serious and almost sad even in their pleasures.
~ Carl Elliott
There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
That's the thing about being a Labrador retriever - you were born for fun. Seldom was your loopy, freewheeling mind cluttered by contemplation, and never at all by somber worry; every day was a romp. What else could there possibly be to life? Eating was a thrill. Pissing was a treat. Shitting was a joy. And licking your own balls? Bliss. And everywhere you went were gullible humans who patted and hugged and fussed over you.
~ Carl Hiaasen
He wondered if something was mentally wrong with him for being content with what he had
~ Carl Hiaasen
But Erin let it slide. The child was only four years old; she had a whole lifetime to learn about sadness. Today was for Dalmatians, ice cream and new dolls.
~ Carl Hiaasen
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
~ Carl Jung
There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word "happy" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
~ Carl Jung
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
~ Carl Jung
If you focus for a moment, you can always find some place in you that feels good right now. Your task is to give the expanding positive feeling your full attention. When you do, you will find that it expands with your attention. Let yourself enjoy it as long as you possibly can.
~ Gay Hendricks
All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is. —BUDDHA
~ Gay Hendricks
When any problem occurs, you have two choices: you can get upset about it, or you can simply figure out what needs to be done. Getting upset has a seductive quality to it; there is rich drama to be had there. The cost is that there is no happiness to be had. Happiness opens up when you drop the drama and start looking for what needs to be done. Any relationship improves when both people shift from complaints to statements of what they want.
~ Gay Hendricks
When I'm operating in my Zone of Genius, I am doing what I love to do and I'm enjoying what I have.
~ Gay Hendricks
we're learning to let ourselves enjoy love, abundance, and other forms of positive energy without sabotaging ourselves.
~ Gay Hendricks
Volunteers are paid in six figures... S-M-I-L-E-S.
~ Gayla LeMaire
Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn't even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself. But if you keep waiting for the doors to be opened for you... I think you'll have a hard time finding single happiness, let alone that double portion.
~ Gayle Forman
Are you happy in your misery? Resting peaceful in desolation? It's the final tie that binds us The sole source of my consolation" "blue
~ Gayle Forman
L'chaim!': To life!
~ Gayle Forman
I remember watching it all and getting the tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.
~ Gayle Forman
Mia's smile is melting chocolate. It's a kick-ass guitar solo. It's everything good in this world.
~ Gayle Forman
I understand that this is the point of laughter, to spread happiness.
~ Gayle Forman
About being grateful for what you have instead of yearning for what you think you want.
~ Gayle Forman
En los libros y las películas, las historias siempre terminan cuando las dos personas finalmente tienen su romántico beso. La parte del vivieron-felices-para- siempre solo se supone.
~ Gayle Forman