Quotes About Happiness

How strangely it excites people to see their dogs swimming!

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

The only consolation I had was buying things. If I bought some pretty thing it cheered me up for a while.

Ah'm sittin in the hotel bar waitin oan Fiona. Thinkin aboot her heart-melting smile and that sexy, concentrated frown when she evaluates books and the comments made by lecturers. Whenever she comes into a room, ma spirits soar. What ah feel is delight, pure and simple. Our life is all passionate kisses and soft wells of laughter. Ah love watchin her in class; even though we're shaggin, it's still great tae just look at her.

Jim has a nice life, he considers, but sometimes Frank has a hell of a lot more fun.

There's some kids playing out in the back, the strip of grass luminated an electric green by the brilliant sunlight. The sky is a delicious clear blue. Life is beautiful. I'm going to enjoy it, and I'm going to have a long life.

I haven't felt that good since Archie Gemmill scored against Holland in 1978 -Mark Renton

Tae be touched by real love requires great fortune, it's no in your hands.

the happiness and love that once lived here

You're not sick you're just in love.

I long to be out in the sun with no work to be done.

God is imagined as a rich, old gentleman who is very happy that things are going so smooth here on Earth that he had created.

The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.

But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far superior to that of muscle and sinew. Let me tell you, if you don't know it from your own experience, that reading a good book, losing yourself in the interest of words and thoughts, is for some people (me, for instance) an incredible intensity of happiness.

Civilizations have always been pyramidal in structure. As one climbs toward the apex of the social edifice, there is increased leisure and increasing opportunity to pursue hapiness. As one climbs, one finds also fewer and fewer people to enjoy this more and more. Invariably, there is a preponderance of the dispossessed. And remember this, no matter how well off the bottom layers of the pyramid might be on an absolute scale, they are always dispossessed in comparison with the apex.

I've seen many people with status, but I'm still looking for a happy one. Status won't sit still under you; you have to continually fight to keep from sinking.

A happy wall is a long-lived wall, a practical wall, a useful wall.

But what could I want with riches? The true wealth is the love of one's people.

He de decir, si usted no lo sabe por propia experiencia, que leer un buen libro, embebido en el interés de sus palabras y pensamientos, produce en algunas personas (en mí, por ejemplo) una increíble sensación de felicidad.

ÖÄŸrenmek demek ufkunuzu geniÅŸletmek, daha fazla ÅŸey yaÅŸamak ve kendinize farkl? yaÅŸam alanlar? yaratmak demektir. ... Bilgi yaln?zca güç deÄŸildir; bilgi mutluluktur ve bilginin size öÄŸretilmesi ise entelektüel manada, sevilmekle eÅŸdeÄŸerdir.

And it was the amount of energy a single human could produce that dictated military potential, standard of living, happiness, and all besides.

el eterno ideal era un hombre austero, que solo vivía para la misión a la que era destinado, para la mejora de la Realidad y para incrementar la suma de la felicidad humana.

Naturally, trouble makes for greater drama than does happiness, and it asks for more in the way of human response

Besides, as I sometimes say, "Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.