Quotes About Happiness

If you are working 80 hours a week at a job which shrivels your soul, then you are a slave. I don't are whether you are earning $600,000 a year or more. Life is precious. Each minute is a priceless gift. No amount of money can reclaim lost time.

Scholar George Myerson has recently written a study of happiness. After 250 pages tracking moments of joy throughout history, he concludes that humans are happiest hanging with friends, gathered around tables with good food and conversation and laughter. If you can get that table out of doors, so the sun can kiss the skin—if as you dine together you can also provide help for others—then, according to Myerson, you've won the lottery of life.[36]

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Everything in life was joyous, everything in life was important, everything should be done well.

Life is not a laughing matter, but can you imagine having to live without laughing.

The skeleton was as happy as a madman whose straitjacket had been taken off.

There is nobody that can make you happy, you must take care of this matter yourself.

Quella vita ch'è una cosa bella, non è la vita che si conosce, ma quella che non si conosce; non la vita passata, ma la futura. Coll'anno nuovo, il caso incomincerà a trattar bene voi e me e tutti gli altri, e si principierà la vita felice. Non è vero?

L'immaginazione è la prima fonte della felicità umana.

Nature wants to propogate our race. What else would it want. We, however, are vain and gullible enough to convince ourselves that it has our happiness in mind.

Whoever was in her presence trembled before her, and the more she made herself feared, the more it delighted her, the more it seemed to make her feel happy.

The people were less earnest than we, and might think less, but they all looked happy. Supposedly, dying is easier in the south.

Should I belong to one man whom I do not love, only because I loved him once? No, I cannot renounce Ã¢â'¬â€œ I love him who pleases me and if he loves me, I make him happy. Is that so awful? It is at least much better than if I were to cruelly revel in the torments that my charms inspire and prudishly turn away from the one who is in love with me. I am young, beautiful and so I live happily for pleasure and desire.

Te roba algo de tu alegría que yo haya pertenecido antes a otro y que otro me posea después de ti? ¿Será menor tu placer porque otro haya sido feliz como tú?

Before you, that another will possess me after you and would you enjoy it the less if another was happy at the same time as you?

The happiest people are focused on living their own life (not someone else's) as well as possible.

Happiness may be powerfully exuberant or softly joyful. Happiness may be as light and frivolous as a bubble.

I would rather fail at what I love than succeed at what I hate.

If you're not willing to risk you cannot grow, and if you cannot grow you cannot become your best, and if you cannot become your best, you cannot be happy.

You can't get out of life alive, so you may as well have a good time.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. e. e. cummings

Why would a happily married man isolate himself this way, standing in meditation through the night?

How could you teach someone to survive? You pointed them in the right direction and hoped they'd swim, not sink. Waving, not drowning. There are more important things in life than individual happiness. It was an easy trap to fall into, mistaking a lack of self-direction for an expression of love.

Grandchildren are the dessert course of life, or, as Steve Leber, who founded Grandparents.com, told me, "God gave us grandchildren to make up for aging." Ain't it the truth.