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Quotes About Happiness

Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.
~ Paulo Coelho
And the person who loves wholeheartedly feels free.
~ Paulo Coelho
Allowing someone else to make us happy will make them happy too.
~ Paulo Coelho
Every day, God gives us the sun — and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy.
~ Paulo Coelho
If you concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. You'll see that there is life in the desert, that there are stars in the heavens...Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living right now.
~ Paulo Coelho
I kissed him hard. The few people in the bar must have been thinking that all they were seeing was just a kiss. They didn't know that this kiss stood for my whole life - and his life, as well. The life of anyone who has waited, dreamed, and searched for their true path. The moment of that kiss contained every happy moment I had ever lived.
~ Paulo Coelho
When each day is the same as the nest it's because people fail to reconize the good things that happen in thier lives everyday the sunrises
~ Paulo Coelho
we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.
~ Paulo Coelho
I fell asleep and dreamed that life was only Happiness. I woke and discovered that life was Duty. I did my Duty and discovered that life was Happiness.
~ Paulo Coelho
JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide.
~ Paulo Coelho
When you love each other, you have to be ready for anything. Because love is like a kaleidoscope, the kind we used to play with when we were kids. It's in constant movement and never repeats itself. If you don't understand this, you are condemned to suffer for something that really only exists to make us happy.
~ Paulo Coelho
Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people in order to be happy. But other people were so difficult. They reacted in unpredictable ways, they surrounded themselves with defensive walls, they behaved just as she did, pretending they didn't care about anything. When someone more open to life appeared, they either rejected them outright or made them suffer, consigning them to being inferior, ingenuous.
~ Paulo Coelho
Instead of answering your question directly I shall quote from the Indian poet Tagore: "I slept and dreamt that life was joy/ I awoke and saw that life was service/I acted and behold, service was joy." In fact, through my work I discover life, people, and everything which happens around us.
~ Paulo Coelho
Freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a smile, even when that smile is dimmed with tears.
~ Paulo Coelho
Why are we smiling when we loathe each other?' 'Why do we sell happiness to the readers of this magazine when we are profoundly unhappy ourselves, the slaves of fame?
~ Paulo Coelho
What is success? poses the Copt. It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace.
~ Paulo Coelho
Find someone who makes you smile, because it only takes a smile to make a day better
~ Paulo Coelho
Stay close to those who sing, tell stories, and enjoy life, and whose eyes sparkle with happiness. Because happiness is contagious and will always manage to find a solution, whereas logic can find only an explanation for the mistake made.
~ Paulo Coelho
but this loneliness exists and eats away at the best parts of us because we must use all our energy to appear happy, even though we will never be able to deceive ourselves.
~ Paulo Coelho
Quando se ama não é preciso entender o que se passa lá fora, pois tudo passa a acontecer dentro de nós
~ Paulo Coelho
Para la mayoría de las personas, la generosidad consiste en sólo dar. Pero recibir es también un acto de amor. Permitir que el otro nos haga feliz también lo hará feliz a él.
~ Paulo Coelho
Only a man who is happy can create happiness in others.
~ Paulo Coelho
The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. To realize one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation. All things are one.
~ Paulo Coelho
Could it be fear? But what could be worse than living a sad, gray life, in which every day is the same? What could be worse than the fear that everything will disappear, including my own soul, and leave me completely alone in this world when I once had everything I needed to be happy?
~ Paulo Coelho