Quotes About Happiness

Did people ever stop changing? They surprised you with fresh pain. Sometimes they surprised you with happiness, but the pain was the sharper surprise. There was no way to protect yourself from it. People could always change and always hurt you. Of course it went in the other direction too, you could hurt them when you didn't intend it and that too was out of your control.

Perhaps it's true, my happiest moments are the anticipation of other moments still to come.

If the right to happiness is not an idle piece of wishful thinking but a demand of reason, the consequences can be revolutionary.

In the universe there are only a few absolutes of value; something is valuable because it can be eaten for nourishment or used as a weapon or made into clothes or it is valuable if you want it and you believe it will make you happy. Then it is worth anything as well as nothing, worth as much as you will give to have something you think you want.

Lucky discovered that laughing was like crying in the sense that sometimes you cannot stop. And it's a catching disease, because when another person is spurting and gasping it makes you start again even after you have taken deep gulps of air and stopped looking at the other laughing person.

Pixy Stix comfort you when you are in a sad or desperate situation, and it is always good to have some on hand.

as unlikely as it may sound, in fact this sorrow is the gateway to lasting happiness, the kind that can never be taken from you.

Let "I intend to find happiness" become "I intend to find happiness to benefit myself and the others in my life." Let "I set the intention to feel no more misery" become "I set the intention to help all beings escape from misery, beginning with myself." You can convert any poison into medicine by applying the proper wisdom.

THE NEXT TIME you notice that despair is driving you and you don't know how to believe in happiness anymore, slow down. Pick up a pen and a piece of paper and write down the wish that is at the center of your desperation: "I

A Dark Night of the Soul is not the universe's attempt to rob you of happiness or beat you into submission—on the contrary. It is a natural cycle of life that teaches you the meaning of happiness beyond pleasure. It offers the opportunity for liberation from inauthenticity. If you acknowledge the Dark Night and open to it, it will teach you extraordinary lessons about who you are and what your life is about.

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.

If I had the wings of a swan, over these stony hills I would fly. I would fly to the arms of my true love, and there I'd be happy to die.

Values: what makes our existence most worthwhile: safety, excitement, social recognition, happiness, self-respect, status. •   Life goals: the achievements we crave during a lifetime: career success, financial security, travel, adventure, marriage, children. •   Personality: a combination of character and temperament: honesty, mental acuity, kindness, generosity, bravery, commitment to hard work.

It's said that the best thing in life is to be happily partnered and the next best thing is to be happily single

While the rhythm of running emphasizes a downward motion, the upward motion of skipping defies gravity and elevates my mood in the process.

Love and laughter are the bricks we build our lives out of and the mortar that cements them together.

Principle 4: Tackle your toughest challenge today. Burnout doesn't occur because we're solving problems; it occurs because we've been trying to solve the same problem over and over. The problem named is the problem solved. Identify and then confront the real obstacles in your path. Stay current with the people important to your success and happiness. Travel light, agenda-free.

Agarramo-nos uma à outra enquanto a vida se esvaía e aprendemos que a felicidade é fugidia.

I wonder where love really is. Good feelings. Happiness. They're someplace, I know. I feel that. But without Father and Mother, how do I get there?

Kim was, as always, utterly happy while running, in accord with nature, in harmony with the universe, in touch with the truth that was in him, full of love for all creatures even to the lowliest insect.

I've come to think that if doing something simple or silly can give a person pleasure, then, by God, do it

When you're with the person you love, you're home.

Kids aren't supposed to have to figure out how to be happy. They just are.