Quotes About Happiness

I've only myself to please. There's great freedom in that.

Our entire society's based on discontent: people wanting more and more and more, being constantly dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their decor, their clothes, everything. Taking it for granted that that's the whole point of life, never to be satisfied. If you're perfectly happy with what you've got–specially if what you've got isn't even all that spectacular–then you're dangerous.

I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect. My gift, or fatal flaw, is for nostalgia

am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect. My gift, or fatal flaw, is for nostalgia. I have sometimes been accused of demanding perfection, of rejecting heart's desires as soon as I get close enough that the mysterious impressionistic gloss disperses into plain solid dots, but the truth is less simplistic than that. I know very well that perfection is made up of frayed, off-struck mundanities.

That suits me down to the ground.

There's no bad mood that fresh air and exercise can't mend.

Worrying had always seemed to me like a laughable waste of time and energy; so much simpler to go happily about your business and deal with the problem when it arose, if it did, which it mostly didn't.

and their days make no story for they were good and joyful and without event

He used to think things like, This organic soymilk will make me healthy and that'll make my brain work better and that'll improve my writing . Also things like, The less I eat the less money I spend on publicly owned companies the less pain and suffering will exist in the world . Now he thinks things like, It is impossible to be happy . Why would anyone think that?

I don't like happy people," Andrew said. "They're already happy; they don't need to be liked." "Wow, so selfless," Mark said. "You're a saint. I commend your selflessness. Amazing.

I don't like happy people," Andrew said. "They're already happy; they don't need to be liked.

It's wonderful," his mother says, and I feel something old and familiar course through my blood. It fills all four chambers of my heart, and I think maybe, just maybe, it's happiness.

May I accept things as they are. I wish you happiness and well-being, but I cannot make your choices for you or control the way things are.

May I be filled with lovingkindness; may I be held in lovingkindness. May I feel safe and at ease. May I feel protected from inner and outer harm. May I be happy. May I accept myself just as I am. May I touch deep, natural peace. May I know the natural joy of being alive. May I find true refuge within my own being. May my heart and mind awaken; may I be free.

I have just two instructions for you this week. One is to breathe, and one is to smile.

It is better to do what you love for work, but if it is your day job that enables an unpaid passion, then your life is still sweeter. What is important is that you make time for your dreams, not whether or not you get paid for it.

It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.

The twentieth century was a horrible detour in the evolution of the human habitat. We were building more for cars' mobility than children's happiness. —Enrique Peñalosa, 2008

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I understand you only too well, but Rachel's needs are no less important than your desire to be part of history. Find a balance. Happiness is like good health. You only miss it when it disappears.

Happiness is like good health. You only miss it when it disappears.

The old antiques dealer whispers to him that the secret of freedom and happiness lies in self-control and in a marriage between knowledge, will and power.

A marriage could not be happy if the husband was prettier than the wife, that much she knew.

See, there's the pie chart. If you look, you can see clear as day that the happy times -- the times when you think "How fun! I'm glad I'm alive" -- don't make up even one tenth of life. I'm work this out properly with a calculator, so there's no mistake.