Quotes About Happiness

It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it.

A beautiful person is someone who stays true to themselves and their spirit someone who is self-confident and can make you smile.

So your question, are we happy here? I say how can we be happy when we are mere wanderers without a home?

Great Britain, an island off the Dutch coast, which is responsible for the happiness of fully one-quarter of the human race. Per: Van Loon's Geography, Copy-write 1932. Garden City Publishing, Copy-write 1937; Page-216.

You can only have bliss if you don't chase it.

Many people say I smile more in Africa than in Sweden.

I love Christmas. I receive a lot of wonderful presents I can't wait to exchange.

What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.

What is a home without children? Quiet.

To live is to be happy to live. The usefulness of life ah! its expansion has not the mystic shapes we vainly dreamed of when we were paralyzed by youth. Rather has it a shape of anxiety, of shuddering, of pain and glory. Our heart is not made for the abstract formula of happiness, since the truth of things is not made for it either. It beats for emotion and not for peace. Such is the gravity of the truth.

Human suffering is a positive thing, which requires a positive answer, and sad as it is, the word is beautiful, because of the absolute truth it contains.[...] It is an error to believe that we can be happy in perfect calm and clearness, as abstract as a formula. We are made too much out of shadow and some form of suffering. If everything that hurts us were to be removed, what would remain?

I believe that around us there is only one word on all sides, one immense word which reveals our solitude and extinguishes our radiance: Nothing! I believe that that word does not point to our insignificance or our unhappiness, but on the contrary to our fulfillment and our divinity, since everything is in ourselves.

It is not by sin that we attain happiness, nor is it by virtue, nor is it by that kind of divine fire by which one makes great instinctive decisions and which is neither good not evil. It is by none of these things that one reaches happiness. One never reaches happiness.

Happiness needs unhappiness. Joy goes hand in hand with sorrow. It is thanks to the shadow that we exist. We must not dream of an absurd abstraction. We must guard the bond that links us to blood and earth.

Donde hay felicidad, hay creación. Cuanto más rica es la creación, más profunda es la felicidad

O maior inimigo do riso é a emoção.

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.

C'est tellement triste quand le bonheur s'arrête que je suis pas sûr qu'il vaille le coup.

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illumination the fog that surround

Le secret du bonheur était de vivre en jugeant le présent avec la même sérénité que s'il s'agissait déjà du passé.

Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.