Quotes About Happiness

If our happiness is the purpose of God, … why are so few of us happy?' 'Perhaps he want us to have the happiness that we can only find for ourselves.

It may not be the happiness we had before, it may feel like a lesser version of it for a time, we may not even feel it some days at all. But we have to believe more will come. We have to hope.

Her barrel of misery has depth enough to hold a thousand bushels of happiness.

You have always been useless. But that doesn't mean you aren't necessary. What do you mean? Happiness can depend as easily on useless things as useful ones.

Una esclava que se alegra es una esclava de todas formas.

The reason for a woman's life," said Sarai, "is the same as the reason for a man's—so that she might have joy.

Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others

Ella se sentía contenida en su abrazo, nunca confinada.

If our happiness is the purpose of God," said Alai, "why are so few of us happy?

I've had enough adventures, said Noxon, to know that boredom is the closest thing to happiness. Boredom means that there's nothing wrong. You're not hungry, you're not in pain. Nobody's making any demands on you. Your mind is free to think whatever you want. The only thing that makes boredom unpleasant is if you're impatient for something else to happen.

La felicidad puede depender tan fácilmente de las cosas útiles como de las inútiles.

Cambiar al mundo es bueno para aquellos que quieren su nombre en los libros. Pero ser feliz... eso es para aquellos que escriben sus nombres en las vidas de los demás y retienen los corazones de otros como el tesoro más preciado.

Quara's need was and is so great that a person like me could be swallowed up in it a dozen times over. I had problems of my own then. Don't condemn me because I wrote her off. Her barrel of misery has depth enough to hold a thousand bushels of happiness.

It was a strange, exhilarating feeling to be with people who didn't want anything from you except your happiness, who were glad just to have you around.

Para conservar la alegría de la infancia tendrías que morir siendo niño, o vivir como tal, sin convertirte nunca en hombre, sin crecde jamás.

But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear. Valentine

When you love people, you do whatever it takes to make them happy.

If the purpose of life was just to continue into the future, then none of it would have meaning, because it would be all anticipation and preparation. There's fruition, Grego. There's the happiness we've already had. The happiness of each moment. The end of our lives, even if there's no forward continuation, no progeny at all, the end of our lives doesn't erase the beginning.

If I could make my heart hard, said Alvin, I'd be a worse man, but a happier one.

Still, it's better to believe that some high purpose guides our steps than to think that nothing matters except our own small miseries and happinesses. - Alai pg.216

I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.

With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?

Who, being loved, is poor?

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.