Quotes About Happiness

If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.

A good laugh recharges your battery.

When laughter feasts, sadness starves.

Sometimes I laugh so hard the tears run down my leg.

I used to trouble about what life was for — now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Life can be hard but if you've got somebody to love — yay!

May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light, May good luck pursue you each morning and night.

May the wings of the butterfly kiss the sun And find your shoulder to light on, To bring you luck, happiness, and riches Today, tomorrow, and beyond.

...and torture myself with happy thoughts...

There is no problem a burrito can't solve.

What do you call a person who is happy on Mondays? Unemployed.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy you the kind of misery you prefer.

No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Music is one of the best ways to enjoy the present. It's not that much fun to look forward to hearing music or to remember what a song sounded like last week, but music right now absorbs us and places us directly in the moment.

Happiness flutters in the air whilst we rest among the breaths of nature.

Let the sublimated philosopher grasp visionary happiness while pursuing phantoms dressed in the garb of truth! Their supreme wisdom is supreme folly: and they mistake for happiness the mere absence of pain. Had they ever felt the solid pleasure of one generous spasm of the heart, they would exchange for it all the frigid speculations of their lives...

...we must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie... It casts out stress as the heat of the hand repels quicksilver... Keep you your precious vapors, your fantods, your anxiety. Give me a pie. Give me a pie anyday.

Perhaps all pleasure is relief.

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

[I]f I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.

Pray on the shadowy hillsides of hardship and on the sunny highlands of happiness.

I like people who smile when it's raining.

It's better to go out and dance in the rain than to stay inside under a leaky roof.

dancing in the rain at nature's cloudy party