Quotes About Happiness

Will we be happier afterwards? Or will be have lost the freshness of those who are privileged to experience art as real life, where we enter after the trumps have been played, and we leave without knowing who's going to win or lose the game?

You must consider that the librarian (if not overworked or neurotic) is happy when he can demonstrate two things: the quality of his memory and erudition and the richness of his library, especially if it is small. The more isolated and disregarded the library, the more the librarian is consumed with sorrow for its underestimation. A person who asks for help makes the librarian happy.

and I loved the girl precisely because she existed, and I was happy, not envious, that she existed.

La vida es llevadera, basta conformarse.

Az életöröm abból az érzésbÅ'l fakad, hogy a vigalom meg a búbánat is csak rövid ideig tart, és jaj nekünk, ha megtudjuk, hogy örök boldogság vár reánk.

dienos miegas yra lyg k?no nuod?m?: kuo daugiau jos esi patyr?s, tuo daugiau jos trokšti, bet jautiesi nelaimingas, kartu sotus ir alkanas.

when the soul is transported, the only virtue lies in loving what you see (is that not true?), the supreme happiness in having what you have;

Mutlu insan?n hikayesi olmaz

All that a rich man needed to be happy was to have no heart. If he had one, then all the gifts which fortune showered upon him might turn to dust and ashes in his hands.

Such was their dream of happiness for this world; and for the next, you prayed to the Blessed Virgin, went to mass two or three times a year, and left everything else to the Higher Powers.

Farewell my dearest flower; Farewell my happiness as well, as for me, the unfortunate, I see I am destined by the highest To live alone in this world, in misery

She was, as Lanny had told Esther, a true granddaughter of the Puritans. Her forefathers had sailed in a tiny vessel across a turbulent sea and landed on a cold, inhospitable coast; they had risked their lives for the sake of freedom of conscience. Now Bess was ready to give her happiness for the sake of this new religion which despised religion but which manifested all the symptoms and practiced all the zealotry of those who had received a revelation direct from God.

Emperor Trajan he read an inscription from those same ancient days and in that same spirit: "To hunt, to bathe, to play, to laugh, that is to live.

I had never heard Ellery laugh before, not out loud. I loved the sound, it filled me up. It tinkled like a magic bird.

Laughter is nature's ok signal.

Love is an uphill climb, but once you know yourself and like yourself just as you are, it's all downhill from there.

Positive thoughts about life were connected to love and success. If A equaled C, and B equaled C, then A and B had to be the same. Food was life.

Perfectionism really is the enemy of happiness and success.

Lock in on the eyes--not the stomach, or the thighs--and make a vow to yourself to define existence by generating thoughts, feelings, and actions that increase the amount of joy and happiness in your head, your home, and the world.

Your closet should me you feel giddy, like you're surrounded by beauty. It should be your happy place, giving you a sense of safety and competence.

The sea was not freedom; it was a likeness of freedom, a symbol of freedom...How splendid freedom must be if a mere likeness of it, a mere reminder of it, is enough to fill a man with happiness.

Era hermosa porque era buena. La cogió de la mano. Ella se acostó a su lado y él sintió su calor, sintió su tierno pecho, los hombros, el cabello. Le parecía sentir todo aquello no despierto sino en sueños: despierto, nunca había sido feliz.

What constitutes the freedom, the soul of an individual life, is its uniqueness. The reflection of the universe in someone's consciousness is the foundation of his or her power, but life only becomes happiness, is only endowed with freedom and meaning when someone exists as a whole world that has never been repeated in all eternity. Only then can they experience the joy of freedom and kindness, finding in others what they have already found in themselves.

What constitutes the freedom, the soul of an individual life, is its uniqueness. The reflection of the universe in someone's consciousness is the foundation of his or her power, but life only becomes happiness, is only endowed with freedom and meaning when someone exists as a whole world that has never been repeated in all eternity. Only then can they experience the joy of freedom and kindness, finding in others what they have already found in themselves.