Quotes About Happiness

Sun and waves and gentle winds, all love and lightness.

I believe in the gospel of Good Living. You cannot make any god happy by fasting. Let us have good food, and let us have it well cooked — and it is a thousand times better to know how to cook than it is to understand any theology in the world.

I'm in the business of useless beauty, he says. And I'm happy with that. I don't think art needs an excuse to exist. We need beauty in our lives, so we don't go mad.

Happiness is not our goal. The achievement of happiness deflects us from our true destiny which is the utter realization of self.

One of the mistakes we make in handling God's Word is that we reduce it to a set of directions on how to live. We look for directions about relationships, church life, sex, finances, marriage, happiness, parenting, and so on. We mistakenly think that if we have clear directions we will be all right. But we keep getting lost! All the wise and precise directions given to us in Scripture haven't kept us from getting lost in the middle of our personal "big city.

Live well, Ichigo. Live well, age well, go bald well, and die after me. And... if you can, die smiling. (Isshin Kurosaki)

If such a thing called happiness exists in this world, it should be something which resembles the limitless nothingness. Nihility is having nothing and having nothing to lose. If that isn't happiness, then what is?

It is not frightening to know misfortune. What is frightening is to know lost happiness will never come back again.

And if you can, die laughing.

Happiness is endless hapiness, innocent of its own sure passing. Pain is endless pain.

he embraced only a presumption of laissez-faire. That is, the burden is on the proponent of government to show that the greater happiness requires intervention: every departure from (laissez-faire), unless required by some great good, is a certain evil.

Fun is not the same thing as fulfillment.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world; someone to love, something to do and something to hope for.

no one in any commercial seems to be unhappy or angry, whatever the circumstances.

most of us can literally "choose" to be happy, if we understand the mind's thought–emotion mechanism.

The idea of the "job" as the answer to all woes, individual and social, is one of the most pernicious myths of modern society. It is promoted by politicians, parents, newspaper moralists and leaders of industry, on the left and on the right: paradise, they say, is "full employment.

Therefore, the idle parent who wants to stop the whining needs to stop whining himself, and one way is to resist the call to work ever longer and harder hours. Throw your BlackBerry into the river. Unslave yourself. Hard work will not lead to health and happiness. Just ask yourself: would you rather spend your child's first few years playing with them or working for the mega-corp in order to make them profits and you money to buy ribbish you don't need in order to dull the pain of overwork?

Martin also reveals the many scientific studies that have shown the benefits of long sleeping and napping to our health and happiness, and also shows how major disasters such as Chernobyl, and smaller ones such as train and motorway crashes, were caused by lack of sleep. Chasing profit leads to lack of sleep, and lack of sleep can lead to death.

Der Müßiggänger hat den Wunsch, ständig ein gutes Leben zu haben, nicht nur an Samstagabenden.

the dogma of hard work—which is deeply embedded in contemporary notions of what it means to be American—is what keeps us toiling and keeps us happy to be exploited in this way.

After all, why be right when you can be happy.

You don't go around saying "Am I happy?" all the time, unless you're human, of course.

She] laughed so that the street seemed full of little silver bells

Life is about eating and drinking and sleeping and breathing and working, and not being more unhappy than you absolutely have to.