Quotes About Happiness

And really, what has stayed with me from that vacation as much as my own suspicious, petty agonizing is my father on the esplanade just after our arrival. The wind blew his hair, and he was fidgety with delight, straining to explain to my mother and me exactly why the Mighty Mac was so impressive. I wondered at the time—I wonder still—if that was the happiest my father had ever been.

First," she said, "he's dull. He's not lively. Now, plenty of women marry dull men, but your Simon isn't kind, either, and that's a terrible combination. Marrying a man who's dull and nice is fine, or a man who's cruel but fascinating—some people have an appetite for that. But marrying a man who's ponderous and unkind is a recipe for unhappiness.

Mama!' Rosie tugged on my shirt. 'This broccoli is tasty and wonderful'.

Cada vez que un hombre ríe, añade un par de días a su vida

La società capitalista, ad esempio, è la forma più possibile di cristianesimo. Che senza l'esistenza del male non vi può esser Cristo. Che la società capitalista è fondata su questo sentimento: che senza l'esistenza di esseri che soffrono, non si possa interamente godere dei proprii beni e della propria felicità; che il capitalismo, senza l'alibi del cristianesimo, non potrebbe reggere.

He knew it was perfect, and perfectly beautiful. He thought about how much she would like it. When he thought like that, happiness swelled up warm within him.

Está usted malgastando su vida sin renovarla. Tiene que distraerse, divertirse bien y sanamente. Está usted gastando su vitalidad sin adquirir vitalidad ninguna. Esto no puede seguir así, ¿me entiende? ¡Depresión! ¡Evite la depresión!

And do you call yours a divine discontent?' 'Yes. I don't care about its divinity. But damn your happiness! So long as life's full, it doesn't matter whether it's happy or not. I'm afraid your happiness would bore me.

So as long as you can forget your body you are happy and the moment you begin to be aware of your body, you are wretched. So if civilization is any good, it has to help us forget our bodies, and then time passes happily without our knowing it. Help us get rid of our bodies altogether.

If you could only tell them that living and spending isn't the same thing! But it's no good. If only they were educated to live instead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily...

He toasted his bacon on a fork and caught the drops of fat on his bread; then he put the rasher on his thick slice of bread, and cut off chunks with a clasp-knife, poured his tea into his saucer, and was happy.

It was such peace and heavenly freedom, just to fold her and kiss her gently, and not to have any thoughts or any desires or any will, just to be still with her, to be perfectly still and together, in a peace that was not sleep, but content in bliss. To be content in bliss, without desire or insistence anywhere, this was heaven: to be together in happy stillness.

I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.

And these were the happy moments of her life now, when the children included the father in her heart.

I am turned into a dream. I feel nothing, or I don't know what I feel. Yet it seems to me I am happy.

Lemon trees, like Italians, seem to be happiest when they are touching one another

Mrs Morel was happy, bullying her clergyman over his sermons, sitting at tea with a gentleman, who passed her the bread and butter, who waited for her to begin.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry, and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

He brought her forgetmenots. And again his heart hurt with love, seeing her hand, used with work, holding the little bunch of flowers he gave her. She was perfectly happy.

it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.

Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil.

Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.

Rachel turned and smiled at her. The one thing that made Christmas truly perfect was being able to share it with each other

Rachel and Kirsty pinned each other's corsages on. The sweet smell of roses wafted up to them, and they smiled at each other. What are you thinking about Kirsty? asked Rachel. I was just remembering what happened when Kate put the True Love Crown on Princess Grace's head, said Kirsty. I think our adventure was wonderful, but the most wonderful thing of all is knowing that the royal couple will live happily ever after. And we helped it to happen, Rachel agreed. Long live the prince and princess!