Quotes About Happiness

A nation of unhappy teachers makes for a sadder and more endangered America.

As a teacher, I had been a happy man. Now, I was only a diminished one.

Be happy for those who are happy, be compassionate toward those who are unhappy, be delighted for those who are virtuous, and be indifferent toward the wicked.

La amistad, la compasión y la alegría clarifican y tranquilizan la mente. Deben practicarse tanto en la felicidad como en la desgracia, tanto con quienes nos ayudan como con aquellos que nos perjudican.

Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.

At any rate, Therese thought, she was happier than she ever had been before. And why worry about defining everything?

She was conscious of the moments passing like irrevocable time, irrevocable happiness, for in these last seconds she might turn and see the face she would never see again.

He felt he was about to experience again some ancient, delicious childhood moment that the steam calliope's sour hollowness, the stitching hurdy-gurdy accompaniment, and the drum-and-cymbal crash brought almost to the margin of his grasp.

Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh. She had a vision of a pale white flower, shimmering as if seen in darkness, or through water. Why did people talk of heaven, she wondered.

Happiness was a little like flying a kite, she thought, like being a kite. It depended on how much one let the string out-

Happiness was a little like flying, she thought, like being a kite. It depended on how much one let the string out.

Therese said, still laughing, laughing away all the longing and the intention of the night.

Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh. She had a vision of a pale-white flower, shimmering as if seen in darkness, or through water.

Todavía sonreía, como si no acabara de aprender a sonreír y no supiera cómo parar.

There are moments when everyone in the world is the friend of your heart and you must share its joy.

But do we appreciate all this? Ah, no. As Schopenhauer said: "We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack." Yes, the tendency to "seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack" is the greatest tragedy on earth. It has probably caused more misery than all the wars and diseases in history.

Happiness is not mostly pleasure; it is mostly victory.

Schopenhauer: "Raramente pensamos en lo que tenemos, sino siempre en lo que nos falta".

We found that happy people tend to be located in the center of their social networks and to be located in large clusters of other happy people. And we found that each additional happy friend increases a person's probability of being happy by about 9%.

Think and act cheerfully, and you will feel cheerful.

Hay una ley de suma importancia en la conducta humana. Si obedecemos esa ley, casi nunca nos veremos en aprietos. Si la obedecemos, obtendremos incontables amigos y constante felicidad. Pero en cuanto quebrantemos esa ley nos veremos en interminables dificultades. La ley es ésta: Trate siempre de que la otra persona se sienta importante.

Lo más importante que aprendí entonces fue que, si se tiene agua para beber y algo para comer en la medida suficiente, no hay motivo alguno para quejarse

Numerous studies have shown that the physical act of smiling, even while on a phone call, actually improves the tone in which your words are conveyed

told her how happy I was with her choices. It