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Quotes About Happiness

announcer's unchecked joy.
~ Wally Lamb
People waste their happiness—that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
~ Wally Lamb
The secret is to just settle for the shape your life takes... Instead of... always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.
~ Wally Lamb
People waste their happiness...Everyone's so scared to be happy.
~ Wally Lamb
feels good no matter what
~ Wally Lamb
Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.
~ Walt Whitman
I am satisfied ... I see, dance, laugh, sing.
~ Walt Whitman
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. Henceforth, I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune. Henceforth, I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing.
~ Walt Whitman
I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself.
~ Walt Whitman
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
~ Walt Whitman
The efflux of the soul is happiness, here is happiness, I think it pervades the open air, waiting at all times, Now it flows unto us, we are rightly charged.
~ Walt Whitman
To be in any form, what is that? (round and round we go, all of us, and ever come back thither,) If nothing lay more develop'd the quahung in it's callous shell were enough. Mine is no callous shell. I have instant conductors all over me whether I pass or stop, they seize every object and lead it harmlessly through me. I merely stir, press, feel with my fingers, and I am happy, to touch my person to someone else's is about as much as I can stand.
~ Walt Whitman
henceforth I will go celebrate any thing I see or am, And sing and laugh and deny nothing.
~ Walt Whitman
Will you seek afar off? You surely come back at last, In things best known to you finding the best or as good as the best, In folks nearest to you finding also the sweetest and strongest and lovingest, Happiness not in another place, but this place... not for another hour, but this hour
~ Walt Whitman
O past! O happy life! O songs of joy! In the air, in the woods, over fields, Loved! loved! loved! loved! loved! But my mate no more, no more with me! We two together no more. -from Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
~ Walt Whitman
And henceforth I will go celebrate any thing I see or am, And sing and laugh and deny nothing.
~ Walt Whitman
The efflux of the soul is happiness, here is happiness, I think it pervades the open air, waiting at all times, Now it flows unto us, we are rightly charged. Allons! whoever you are come travel with me! Traveling with me you find what never tires.
~ Walt Whitman
O the blest eyes, the happy hearts, That see, that know the guiding thread so fine, Along the mighty labyrinth. -from Song of the Universal
~ Walt Whitman
I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content.
~ Walt Whitman
Not one is dissatisfied . . . . not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not
~ Walt Whitman
I dote on myself...there is that lot of me, and all so luscious. Each moment and whatever happens thrills me with joy.
~ Walt Whitman
Over the mountain growths, disease and sorrow, An uncaught bird is ever hovering, hovering, High in the purer, happier air.
~ Walt Whitman
I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself
~ Walt Whitman
Ó lélek, nagynak tartod azt, ha roppant könyvek értelméig elhatolsz, És gondolattal terhesen drámákba és elméletekbe mélyedsz? De átérezni most felém trillázó boldogságod, kismadárka, Mellyel tele az ?r, elhagyatott szobám s a lassú délelÅ'tt, Ó, lélek, ez nem éppoly nagy dolog?
~ Walt Whitman