Quotes About Happiness

That was freaking awesome; That's how I feel. That was the best feeling in my high school career.

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

There's nothing better than having a baby. I've always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I'd be overwhelmed, and it's true… I can't tell you how much my attitude has changed since we've got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter… I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that.

Sometimes, it means that you love them enough to let them go because you want them to be happy, and you realized that you're just not able to be happy together.

"Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being."

Moving on after a break up is a great way to get back on your feet and start feeling happy again.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.

After all, it is far better, reasonably, to have continual satisfaction and mild enjoyment in your job than to daily do something you detest only because it pays you that big money that makes the occasional more expensive pleasures possible.

Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don't go through life creaking.

Es ist ein Brauch von Alters her: Wer Sorgen hat, hat auch Likör. Doch wer zufrieden und vergnügt, sieht zu, daß er auch welchen kriegt.

Basically, if the mind stays in the present, it's impossible to worry. Upon careful consideration, it becomes clear that human beings are capable of worrying only about an event that has already transpired or one that may take place in the future (although the occurrence might have just happened or may be about to happen in the next instant). The present moment contains no time or space for worry.

It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.

Bring joy into the world, because you are joy. Bring love into the world, because you are love. Bring light into the world, because you are light. Be authentic, and you express your part, as only you can, and the world becomes a better place, for all creation

Seek happiness and you will find unhappiness. There is no path to happiness. Happiness is the path. Happiness is a state of mind. A state of surrender to and acceptance of what is. Reality experienced through presence. We cannot live in the future nor the past, but we can choose to be held prisoner. To be set free we must move into this moment. This moment is all that exists and all that will ever exist. If we choose not to be happy now, Then When?

All desires actually end in freedom. Your desire is fulfilled and you are empty. The emptiness brings you happiness, but it is unconscious. You attribute your happiness to a possession, not the emptiness. It is the freedom from desire that gives you happiness.

Or so he understood it. If you have twelve treasured memories, his Uncle Arndt had once said as Münster sat on his knee, you will have led a happy life.

If there is any thing which may properly be called happiness here below, I am persuaded it is in the union of two persons who love each other with perfect liberty, who are united by a secret inclination, and satisfied with each other's merit; their hearts are full and leave no vacancy for any other passion; they enjoy perpetual tranquillity, because they enjoy content

God and I have built an immense fire together. We keep each other happy and warm.

Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

She'd thought love was painful and agonizing and all about not good enough . But it was about fitting so well with someone that everything felt bright and crisp and right.

In a painful time of my life I went often to a wooded hillside where May apples grew by the hundreds, and I thought the sourness of their fruit had a symbolism for me. Instead, I was to find both love and happiness soon thereafter. So to me [the May apple] is the mandrake, the love symbol, of the old dealers in plant restoratives.