Quotes About Happiness

After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.

Anne laughed. "I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you.

?sviçre da?lar?ndakine benzeyen o mavi sisi an?ms?yor ve biliyorum. Bu sis, çocuklu?un bitmek üzere oldu?u o kayg?s?z dönemde her ?eyin üstünü kaplar ve o çok büyük, mutlu, ne?eli dairenin içinden gittikçe daralan bir yol ç?kar, ???kl? ve güzel görünse de bu dar yola girmek hem keyifli, hem de müthi? bir ?eydir.

But she is very fond of you, anyone can see that."    "Oh yes, she is. They all are. But—I don't know how it is—if they see me really happy—for long together, I mean—they don't seem to like it."   

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present-- which seldom happens to us.

The sweetest music is the sound of the voice of the woman we love.

If life be wretched, it is hard to bear it; if it be happy, it is horrible to lose it ; both come to the same thing.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune, and favor cannot satisfy him.

Let us not envy a certain class of men for their enormous riches; they have paid such an equivalent for them that it would not suit us; they have given for them their peace of mind, their health, their honour, and their conscience; this is rather too dear, and there is nothing to be made out of such a bargain.

To bewail the loss of a person we love is a happiness compared with the necessity of living with one we hate.

Life is short, if we are only said to live when we enjoy ourselves; and if we were merely to count up the hours we spent agreeably, a great number of years would hardly make up a life of a few months.

Happy the man who lives at home, making it his business to regulate his desires.

We ought never to mock the wretched, for who can be sure of being always happy?

We are never so happy or unhappy as we think.

Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.

Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.

Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas 'tis only a means of attaining it.

We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.

If you look good, are in good health, and feel good about yourself, then you'll be more productive at work, you will be happier in your relationships with your friends and your family, and consequently, you will be a more productive, contributing member of society, making the world a better place for all. And, it all starts by working on yourself.

There exists an infinite, eternal Being, subsisting of himself, who is one without being alone; for he finds in his own essence relations whence, with the necessary movement of his life, results the absolute plenitude of his perfection and his happiness. A Being unique and complete, God suffices to himself.

I don't care about money.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery, but there is an admirable substitute for it... a contented spirit.