Quotes About Happiness

You have grown still, and looking into your mind is like peering into a lake so deep, I cannot see the bottom. What is in you, little one? Is it rage? Is it happiness? Or have you no emotions to give? What is in me is acceptance

always comes to those who wait. The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.

ignorancia, efectivamente, es la felicidad.

The happiness of two beings might be a small thing when compared with the immensity of the universe, but what, ultimately, was more important? Suffering was inescapable, but to care for another and to be cared for in turn-that was the closest any person might come to heaven.

To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have. …

I own a book, he thought, delighted.

Expectations of what could be or what should be are the most common sources of our discontent.

Nix et al. (1999) showed in experimental studies that whereas task success can produce happiness, only success at autonomously motivated tasks maintained or enhanced vitality. Finally, in new research, Bernstein and Ryan (2001) argued that subjective vitality can be affected by contact with nature.

That is the mysterious thing about tragedy- it often strikes at the happiest moment.

Enjoy your life. No curse hangs over you, nor did it ever. No devil chases after your soul. Sing and dance and be merry.

Power, wealth and immortality--they don't bring happiness. You will never know what the word means.

They are so busy, Julia, trying to help the world that they've forgotten how to help themselves. They've forgotten how to be happy, and it is a happy man or woman who helps the world most.

When I look at my life, there has been far more pain than joy.

Happiness can make us feel big and sure of ourselves, but only pain gives us depth.

Watch hugged her back and spoke in her ear. 'I'll tell you a secret,' he said. 'I'm never sad around you guys.

Where ever I am is paradise because I'm there. I am Joy itself.

He recites the names of the trees, vines, shrubs, flowers that he's planted here over the years. I count about forty different species. Finally, in the dim light from the patio, he studies a new fern that has just come up. "It's just vibrant and happy and healthy. The way a patient should be.

emotions are derivations of five core feelings: happiness, sadness, anger, fear, and shame.

orhiko choria orhin laket / orhy ku?lar? ancak orhy'de mutlu olur

We have a nice home and we love each other and that's enough.

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is? —George Bernard Shaw

if someone smiles at you it does not mean they're happy. It just means "I think that if I smile I might get out of this alive!" [ http://brickmag.com/interview-tsitsi-... ]

I sought peace in everything, but never was I happier than in a corner with a book

Quase inebriado,gozava então da sua presença nas coisas que via,e através delas desejava-a,satisfazendo-me à vista delas.E,no entanto,sentia uma dor,porque ao mesmo tempo sofria por uma ausência,mesmo sendo feliz com tantos fantasmas de uma presença.