Quotes About Happiness

Because that's the thing about us human beings when we really love someone, we can be happy even while our heart is breaking.

She feels a certain pity when she thinks of that time, that self. Such an earnest wife-self, wanting so much, her stance one of perpetual leaning forward, as though perfection was a town just a little farther down the road. She didn't know then that perfection had nothing to do with happiness.

He who binds to himself a Joy Doth the wingèd life destroy; But he who kisses the Joy as it flies Lives in Eternity's sunrise.

I saw that this was how we would live out the next decades, dragging ourselves from one expected action to the next, hoping by meticulous duty to bring each other some small measure of happiness. But the comfort that duty offers is lukewarm at best. Happiness, like a mischievous bird that hops from branch to branch, would continue to elude us.

It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine.

He who spends all his time amassing wealth is a slave to it.

I wanted to tell you that I was so sad I felt as if I might be happy, or in love, simply because such powerful feelings can appear the same to the naive. I was mighty with grief, and I thought I should be empowered by it. I thought my hands should shine with a yellow light, and that should I reach out to touch our mother on the head, I would call her back from the place she'd gone.

El dolor de la vida supera a la alegría hasta tal punto que la alegría deja de existir.

Mi familia me ha procurado una alegría insuperable, y debo deciros, hijos míos, que ninguno de vosotros me ha causado ni un minuto de angustia, salvo por razones de salud [...] Cuando erais muy pequeños me procuraba un gran deleite jugar con vosotros, y me inspira cierta pena que esa época haya desaparecido para siempre.

The only way to BE happy is to GIVE happy.

It's hard to be less than happy when you can be happy with less.

Happiness is the by-product of doing the right things in life. And the "right things" always involve serving and loving and caring and contributing to others.

Follow your dreams. Just make sure to have fun too.

When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four-wheeler. I ended up getting both presents for Christmas.

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile.

That is the trouble with happiness-all of it is built on top of something that men want.

That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.

turned out that the only difference between children and adults was that children were prepared to put twice the energy into the project of not being sad.

and I laughed and laughed and laughed until the sound of the sea was drowned.

In a few breaths' time I will speak some sad words to you. But you must hear them the same way we have agreed to see scars now. Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know, something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile.

If one kept the great yellow mounds of smashed brick in the corner of one's eye, then the mind understood them as the contours of nature and forgot its trick of making one unhappy.

He thought of Tom dancing with the girl, and he was happy. Sleep came, finally, with the music swelling into the vacuum in his mind where there had been only that high, thin whining. The gramophone spun and he slept, with the letter still in his hand. He had kissed Duggan as he was dying. It had seemed the only thing to do.

Nkiruka loved music, and now I saw that she was right because life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs.

I can sing and dance. I can smile - a lot.