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Quotes About Happiness

We bore ourselves in order to earn money that we'll later spend on trying to de-bore ourselves
~ Tom Hodgkinson
Niceness, he realised, was not enough, and Love was only part of the rest. You had to have laughter, too. Laughter would make everything come out right in the end, or if it didn't nobody would notice.
~ Tom Holt
Enjoy yourself it is later than today"!
~ Tom Hopkins
Happiness Equals Reality Minus Expectations
~ Unknown
It is the first shower that wets." "Marriage is like picking the place where you're going to live for the next fifty years by using a wall map, a blind fold, and what you really, truly, deeply believe is your lucky dart." "Our marriage, like all marriages, was happy until it wasn't
~ Unknown
Contentment = An acceptance of the present Fulfillment = A progressive realization of your potential Satisfaction = Contentment + Fulfillment Enjoyment = Pleasure + Love Happiness = Satisfaction + Enjoyment
~ Unknown
Morality is not first and foremost about restriction and constraint. It's about human flourishing. It's also about the deepest sort of happiness. And it's about living a good life, which is, in fact, the best life. It's all about what you honor, cultivate, do, and become. It's common to think of any rules and structures
~ Unknown
Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.
~ Unknown
She would be a mentor and an inspiration to girls like herself, the quiet ones who'd sleepwalked their way through high school, knowing nothing except that they couldn't possibly be happy with any of the choices the world seemed to be offering them.
~ Tom Perrotta
I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
~ Tom Petty
Most things I worry about never happen anyway.
~ Tom Petty
Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.
~ Tom Petty
Servitude, like a destructive volcano, desiccates, burns, engulfs everything it surrounds: liberty, on the contrary, always brings in its wake happiness, abundance, and the arts.… Everything is free in a Kingdom where liberty is seated at the foot of the throne, where the least subject finds in the heart of his king the feelings of a father.… No one is [a] slave in France." The
~ Tom Reiss
Servitude, like a destructive volcano, desiccates, burns, engulfs everything it surrounds: liberty, on the contrary, always brings in its wake happiness, abundance, and the arts.… Everything is free in a Kingdom where liberty is seated at the foot of the throne, where the least subject finds in the heart of his king the feelings of a father.… No one is [a] slave in France.
~ Tom Reiss
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
~ Tom Robbins
Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously.
~ Tom Robbins
There are only two mantras, yum and yuck, mine is yum.
~ Tom Robbins
She had an exciting job, several good friends, her cat, her peanut M&Ms, the mystery novels she was forever reading, and—well, me.
~ Unknown
Show me the heart unfettered by foolish dreams, and I'll show you a happy man." Keating: "But only in their dreams can men be truly free. 'Twas always thus, and always thus will be.
~ Tom Schulman
The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer. —Egyptian proverb, c. 2200 BCE
~ Tom Standage
Relationships break down and many people live their days alone and for a lot of unions that do last not all the people are always so happy. Love is not guaranteed.
~ Unknown
Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to the world. When the world shifts, you shift.
~ Tom Stoppard
Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?
~ Tom Stoppard
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
~ Tom Waits