Quotes About Happiness

Mama Sweetie said you didn't need a reason to sing. She said if everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they'd be.

One: Don't play leapfrog with elephants. Two: Don't pet a tiger unless his tail is wagging. Three: Never, ever, mess with the Ladies Auxiliary. -Mayberry Rules for a Long, Happy Life

don't cry because it's over. smile because it happened.

I'm sick of all the pressure. I'm sick of feeling like I'll ruin all their happiness if I don't do what they want me to do.

I felt warm and happy,because the message in his eyes was,YOU'RE MINE AND I'M YOURS.

His happiness made him look super cute, too.

Wind in our hair, sun on our skin, school done for the day and stored safely on a shelf til tomorrow…damn, this being alive thing felt frickin awesome.

But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.

The girls smiled and swayed as though Colleen's happiness was their favorite song.

He's asked me to marry him,

I found the guy! After more than twenty years of being single and jerked around and cheated on and alone, I found my soul mate. Pardon my French, but you think I give a shit about the flowers?

Remember to include humor in your life. Laughter is mandatory.

Will is seen as the source of all suffering, since willing never brings contentment, but only further desire!

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental counduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

We can't be happy all the time. If we were we wouldn't be people, we would be game show hosts.

There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion"--I forget where.

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.

I took that smile and I put it right where the hole in my chest was. It was better than coffee, or chocolate, or a perfect pirouette. I clutched it and held it tight.

I smile a lot. I heard someone say once that it takes fewer muscles to smile than to frown, so i'm trying it out.

The measure of happiness is merely the difference between expectations and outcomes. It is not concerned with what one possesses – it is concerned with how content one is with what one possesses.

All up and down the street the houses looked like any others—but inside them were people who might be happy, or taking refuge, or steeling themselves to go out into the world, searching for something better. So many lives she would never know about, unfolding behind those doors.