Quotes About Happiness

Happiness was a real, actual, achievable possibility. It came when you called. Or no, it never left you in the first place.

Alice wasn't just the competition, someone whose only purpose in life was to succeed and by doing so subtract from his happiness. She was a person with her own hopes and feelings and nightmares. In her own way she was as lost as he was.

He had reached the outer limits of what Fun, capital F, could do for him. The cost was way too high, the returns pitifully inadequate.

Deja de buscar la siguiente puerta secreta que te lleve a tu verdadera vida, deja de esperar. Ya la tienes; no hay otra. Estás aqui, y más te vale disfrutarla o seguirás sufriendo vayas donde vayas, hagas lo que hagas el resto de tu vida, eternamente.

suit, Quentin knew he wasn't happy. Why not? He had painstakingly assembled all the ingredients of happiness. He had performed all the necessary rituals, spoken the words, lit the candles, made the sacrifices. But happiness, like a disobedient spirit, refused to come. He couldn't think what else to do.

Tutte le famiglie felici si assomigliano fra loro, ogni famiglia infelice è infelice a suo modo.

Ogni volta, in qualunque momento le avessero domandato a cosa pensava, poteva rispondere senza errore: a una cosa sola, alla sua felicità e alla sua infelicità.

Many women I know think the ideal of happiness is to be in love with a great man, or to be the wife of a great public success; to share his triumph! They forget you share the man as well!

It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights. There may be something in this theory, but when their amusements are carried to such a point of luxurious and imaginative perfection it certainly gives them great and even unlimited enjoyment at the time.

I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.

I didn't write professionally at first. It took me nine years to get anything published. At the beginning I mostly wrote picture books, which were rejected by every children's book publisher in America. The first book of mine to be accepted for publication was ELLA ENCHANTED, and not one but two publishers wanted it. That day, April 17, 1996, was one of the happiest in my life.

If, instead of our claiming to be a changeful personality, we could regain our true centre, that immutable, conscious self which observes the personality, we should at once and for ever be happy and peaceful, because we would then know for certain that what affected the body could not affect our self.

Life is just a bowl of cherries,Don't take it serious; it's too mysterious.

ALRIGHT then, be a Zen monk. But you wait and see. You'll be happy and bright. You'll laugh. People will envy and ridicule you. You won't care. (sigh)

Over the meeting of the lovers I draw a veil. The burst of rapture with which they clasped each other in a wild embrace -- the many inquiries -- the fond regrets and thrilling hopes -- it is out of my power to convey. Let me, therefore, leave them to their happiness.

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.

What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like, "What does it matter so long as they are contented?" We want, in fact, not so much a Father in Heaven as a grandfather in heaven -- a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to see young people enjoying themselves" and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, "a good time was had by all".

Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshipping oneself is the best.

No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.

I'd give all wealth that years have piled, The slow result of Life's decay, To be once more a little child For one bright summer day.

Christians... get Christmas under control. Seriously. It won't stop! It doesn't stop does it? It's always Christmas now! Make it the whole year! It's the only time you pricks are happy!

research shows that generosity is a cause of lasting happiness,

As everything ages and passes away, may each of us be kind to ourselves; As everything ages and passes away, may each of us accept joy and sorrow; As everything ages and passes away, may each of us be happy and at peace.

Life is hard and astonishingly complicated.... No one great reform will make it easy. Most of us who work -- or want to work -- will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.