Quotes About Happiness

It's an Insta-bloody-gram world out there, baby, where everyone looks like they're having a good time except you. And it ain't true. Folks are desperate to put up photos of themselves having super fun on social media because their conscience knows those times don't last.

No matter how intense and competitive and driven you may be, don't shut out the opportunity to be in the moment, to embrace what you have, and hold on to it for as long as you can. Take time in your life for true fun and happiness and joy and laughter, wherever you can find it. It doesn't make you weak to enjoy your life and appreciate the things that give you satisfaction and a sense of accomplishment.

like a squirrel hoarding chestnuts, we should store up our moments of happiness and triumph so that in a crisis we can draw upon these memories for help and inspiration.

Life is spectacular. Forget the dark things. Take a drink and let time wash them away to where ever time washes away to.

Don't worry about who has the power in the relationship all the time. If you make her happy, then that's the biggest power you can have.

who cares about all the problems and barriers, nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.

I've never seen her laugh like this before. It's a sight to behold, a wonder, like the Eiffel Tower or the World's Largest Prairie Dog.

Life is spectacular. Forget the dark things. Take a drink and let time wash them away to wherever time washes things away to.

You have to stop thinking that way. Don't worry about who has the power in the relationship all the time. If you make her happy, then that's the biggest power you can have.

His wife isn't attractive in any official way, but she is beautiful. It's awesome when she shows up at the store—her face beams, his face beams, and I'm sure my face beams just from watching the two of them.

Sadness is never bad," said Amparo. "Sadness is the mirror of being happy

Everything was normal and right. There were dishes in the sink and the sound of kids playing in the street and the trains passing smutty wind. Something had settled over the kitchen. Rose kept the colours inside the lines and all the patterns were proper, sensible and neat. Happiness. That's what it was.

And though I've lived to be an old man with my very own share of happiness for all the mess I made, I still judge every joyous moment, every victory and revelation against those few seconds of living.

The most basic dividing line is likely between transitory and sustained attention, the former quick, superficial, and often involuntarily provoked; the latter, deep, long-lasting, and voluntary. What matters for present purposes is that selling us things relies mainly on the former—on which the attention merchant thrives—but our happiness depends on balancing the two.

A good character may not make us happy, but it does make us worthy of happiness (XXV 1174). He also maintains that people of character have an inner worth, while people of talent have a market value (XXV 1174), and emphasizes that this worth is created by the person himself. Most importantly, however, he claims that character 'consists in the basic characteristic [GrundAnlage] of the will' (XXV 1174).

People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.

Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.

The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a skill that you develop. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it. It's just like building muscles.

Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.

It is predicated on the assumption that you dislike what you are doing during the most physically capable years of your life. This is a nonstarter—nothing can justify that sacrifice.

If you let pride stop you, you will hate life

Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse.

Happiness is a choice you make and a skill you develop.