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Quotes About Happiness

What nonsense people talk about happy marriages! exclaimed Lord Henry. A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
~ Oscar Wilde
A good doctor. He would not let her take pills. Try each day just to laugh a little bit, it's a good medicine, he said. Pills were a second option. I should have taken them. No. Better off to try laughing. Die laughing.
~ Colum McCann
banging saucepans to ring in the new year?
~ Colum McCann
My head against his shoulder, he laughs as if the laughter wants to travel a good distance, down through my body also.
~ Colum McCann
Elige un trabajo que te guste y no tendrás que trabajar ni un día de tu vida.
~ Confúcio
One joy dispels a hundred cares.
~ Confucius
We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves
~ Confucius
They must often change who would remain constant in happiness and wisdom.
~ Confucius
Coarse rice to eat, water to drink, my bended arm for a pillow - therein is happiness. Wealth and rank attained through immoral means are nothing but drifting clouds.
~ Confucius
Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified. Their hearts being rectified, their persons were cultivated. Their persons being cultivated, their families were regulated. Their families being regulated, their States were rightly governed. Their States being rightly governed, the whole kingdom was made tranquil and happy.
~ Confucius
They will do; but they are not equal to him, who, though poor, is yet cheerful, and to him, who, though rich, loves the rules of propriety.
~ Confucius
The ultimate revenge is living well and being happy. Hateful people can't stand happy people. Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."-
~ Confucius
????????,?????????" "Knowing it does not compare with loving it; loving it does not compare with delighting in it.
~ Confucius
Knowing it does not compare with loving it; loving it does not compare with delighting in it.
~ Confucius
Non esiste una strada verso la felicità. La felicità è la strada.
~ Confucius
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life
~ Confucius
Choose a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life
~ Confusius
I am no good without you, Ginesse," he said. "I spent a lifetime alone, but I never understood loneliness until I was away from you. I never understood happiness until I saw you again.
~ Connie Brockway
The knowledge that she was needed by something living, that she could benefit another creature, produce happiness, or contentment, or just a feeling of security--somehow it filled a part of her as nothing else had.
~ Connie Brockway
Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy'?
~ Connie Willis
I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
~ Cormac McCarthy
There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.
~ Cormac McCarthy
When your dreams are of some world that never was or of some world that never will be and you are happy again then you will have given up.
~ Cormac McCarthy
My daddy once told me that some of the most miserable people he ever knew were the ones that finally got what they'd always wanted.
~ Cormac McCarthy