Quotes About Happiness

Not only is there no way to make everyone happy, it's nearly impossible to make anyone happy. And anyway, most people only think they want to be happy. Including me. There's something wildly freeing about knowing that.

His most remarkable gift, as Laura saw it, was a deep and profound contentment with what he had.

The Plains, Willa Cather wrote years later, are "the happiness and the curse of my life."104

Just for a moment, amid all the bad stuff, this was a happy place again.

He was one of those people who completely changes when they smile. Like the sun had come out.

In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.

But I can't stand the way you make me feel so good, like, better than I ever felt, and then you tear it all away, like deep down, you don't want me to be happy.

Some good shit happens fast (a bestselling book), and some good shit happens slow (love).

And what did you say?" "I said I think that all children do better with happy parents than married parents.

My serotonin surges and Jeff Bezos is a rich man because he knows how much we all just love to get a present, even if it's a present we bought for ourselves.

I get home and there's a box on my front porch. My serotonin surges and Jeff Bezos is a rich man because he knows how much we all just love to get a present, even if it's a present we bought for ourselves.

It's like Michael Cunningham says in The Hours: Happiness is believing that you're gonna be happy. It's hope.

There really is no such thing as the truth but there is such thing as happiness,

I'm so excited to see you that the world doesn't even exist right now.

All I heard was we and I smile.

the world would be a happier place if more people would lift their souls with music instead of ugh-inducing podcasts.

Sam Cooke's 'You Send Me' is on repeat in my head and the world would be a happier place if more people would lift their souls with music instead of ugh-inducing podcasts.

He said that he would sooner kill himself than leave his children." "And what did you say?" "I said I think that all children do better with happy parents than married parents. I said there's no stigma about divorce anymore.

Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can't imagine living any other way. Life without Lucille? Unfathomable, to contemplate how quiet and still my home would be, and how much less laughter there'd be, and how unanchored I'd feel without her presence, the simple constancy of it.

But isn't this what Americans do best, the pursuit of happiness reconfigured as the pursuit of stuff, the diet, the toys, the boys, the magic bullet

tend to side with the Monks of New Skete on the question of the canine desire to please: dogs, they say, care a lot less about pleasing humans than they care about pleasing themselves; if acting in a way that pleases you means something good will happen to them—they'll get a biscuit, a reward, a pat on the back—they're likely to be motivated to carry out the task, but their agenda is not necessarily driven by the pure and selfless wish to make you happy.

All the wealth in the world is no good if you don't have a family.

She turned her head to smile at him, and in that moment she looked rather lovely. With her face lit by affection and happiness, she wasn't actually plain, Hugh realized. Her face was unremarkable, true, but there was a brightness and an animation to her tonight, some spark that made her arresting.

Always start the day with a smile— that way you get it over with. —OSCAR THEGROUCH