Quotes About Happiness

You've said that even if God existed you could not know the mind of God, for that would be a sacrilege from any religious perspective. Divinity is divinity only to the extent that it exceeds the bounds of human understanding, you said. That was one of the statements that made me think of accosting you here. Well, perhaps, happiness is like that too: we cannot really understand the happiness of other people. Or their sorrow.

A love life without worries is no love life at all.

In other words, she reflected, they hadn't known the hardship or the happiness of true conjugal life. But if only they'd been aware that they were lovers, and not husband and wife, and lived out their relationship as it really was, their experience might have been totally different. True, they might have been ostracized, and they would have lost their easy tranquillity — but they might also have felt a keener, more intense kind of joy.

All you need is love. And a tiara. And maybe a cookie.

He who dies with the most toys wins.

If shopping doesn't make you happy, then you're in the wrong shop.

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.

The sages say happiness and sorrow are one. Is this because in finding the first, we also find the second?

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. —Aristotle

Happy people live secure in the knowledge that the activities that bring them enjoyment in the present will also lead to a fulfilling future.

those who kept a daily gratitude journal—writing down at least five things for which they were grateful—enjoyed higher levels of emotional and physical well-being.

happiness, not money or prestige, should be regarded as the ultimate currency—the currency by which we take measure of our lives.

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

Far better to love without profit than love not and reap bitterness.

Thoughts of the future and what it might hold threatened to crowd out her happiness, but she quickly reined in her thoughts and her fears. The good-byes here are only temporary. Someday there will be only together forevers.

Joy, joy forever, my task is done. The gates are passed, and heaven is won.

Life wasn't all neat and tidy. Along with joy and happiness, there were bitter disappointments and heart-rending loose ends.

We should not expect to have all of the blessings o life and none of its trials. It would make this world too delightful a dwelling place, and I fear we would never care to leave it. ... As it is...I have come to believe that it's only by taking some of those objects away from us to which our hearts so closely cling that He endeavors....in His kindness, to draw us from this world to one of greater happiness.

Any place is a palace if your heart decides so.

Sarah couldn't remember when she'd last seen Charlie this happy. It was as if someone had yanked the dial of the dimmer switch round, lighting him up from inside. Normal Charlie was an endearing if reserved mix of cynicism and kindness, warmth and resignation. Now he shone with an emotional energy so exposing you almost wanted to look away, as if you were seeing something you shouldn't.

When you let another steal your joy you give them power over you. Don't let anyone steal your smile

I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.

They always act like they're having an amazing time, they're louder and high-pitched, shoving each other and screaming with laughter at nothing. But Becca knows what they're like when they're happy, and that's not it. Their faces on the way home afterwards look older and strained, smeared with the scraps of leftover expressions that were pressed on too hard and won't lift away.