Quotes About Happiness

Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person's own mind, than on the externals in the world.

If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.

But any great happiness is a bright light, a challenge to fate to do its worst. There must not be people who are too happy. They would discourage all the rest, to whom life grants nothing more than unexceptional moments, intermittent joys, roses that have to be watered with tears.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.

I dream that I'm beautiful. Not exactly beautiful, but inconspicuous. That's what it means to be beautiful, to be like everyone else. My head feels light. My eyes are on the front of my face. I have a nose, rather than nostrils. I have human skin, thin human skin. I walk down the street and no one notices me. Now that's happiness—no one noticing me. It's a happy dream.

Happy countries are all alike; each unhappy country is unhappy in its own way, as has been written.

merriment, the ache in her side that

The man had looked directly at the camera, making a connection she could feel through the years that separated them. He had his arm around the woman, and his smile was a beacon of happiness he plainly wanted the world to see. The woman had her arm around the man's waist. She was gazing up at him, her joy so complete and intimate that being a witness almost seemed an invasion of her privacy.

I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.

I do not like the idea of happyness — it is too momentary — I would say that I was always busy and interested in something — interest has more meaning to me than the idea of happyness.

Living out here has just meant happiness. Sometimes I think I'm half-mad with love for this place.

yellow as a primrose, some great fat white doves

Talking cheerfully, we would set out, and the dogs, tongues lolling, tails wagging, would leave the shade of the tangerine trees and follow us.

A house is not a home until it has a dog.

Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.

Our egos motivate us to believe that we will feel more peaceful and happy if we find someone to blame and direct our anger at that person.

and their cats.

How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and there will never be a time when it is not now.

serotonin in the context of your brain—it's often referred to as one of the feel-good chemicals. Serotonin, which is transported via nerve cells, is most prevalent in your gut.

The next day, to the joy of all of Arthur's court, Sir Gareth was wed to the fair Lady Lyonesse of Cornwall. All who beheld the couple declared that ne'er had so handsome a knight wed so beautiful a maiden. At the same time, Sir Gaheris was wedded to the Lady Lynet, younger sister to the Lady Lyonesse. They looked alright too.

And her laughter was like the wind, the water, and a thousand songbirds singing together.

Es indispensable tomar las cosas más a la ligera, eliminar el dramatismo y optar por la felicidad; crear un ambiente familiar lleno de risas, diversión y un poco de la simple trivialidad cotidiana de la vida.