Quotes About Happiness

I married the man of my dreams in 1998.

Never underestimate the joy of being married to the one man at the party who knows how to dance.

I was ungrateful to Providence by not being happy; and, yet, does happiness always result from the gifts of intelligence? I tend to believe the contrary: one must pay for the gift of knowledge by wishing not to know...

Stuart calls me the Milkybar Kid.

There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it.

Neither one of us talks, the way people sometimes don't when they are happy – but as soon as I have this thought, I realise its opposite is also true.

She sometimes found herself standing in the barn watching her fowl pecking the seed, feeling happy until she realised she wasn't.

Maman told me that every time you smile, a very tiny bit of the smile stays stuck to your face, so as you get older and older your face starts to show all the tiny bits of all your smiles and you look like you are smiling all the time, even when you are just thinking about what to have for breakfast. She said, also, that if you frown a lot then the frowns stick to your face instead. That way when you are old you have a very frowny face and look cross all the time and people are scared of you.

So you want to fall in love? You probably will soon, and if you do, enjoy it, it's harder later on.

But if it was merely happiness, then it had gone beyond the ordinary bounds and become something else, become a a kind of excessive pressure, so that the weight of a coffee cup in her hand, the speed of a cat crossing the garden below, the silent crash of two clouds seemed alsmost more than she could bear.

the formal Master/sub union of Master Cameron and Jess. The ceremony will be brief. Hopefully, their union will be long and happy." She stepped from between Cameron and Jess and turned to face them. "The ceremony has two parts. First, the claiming mark, and then the vows.

My mother told me early that whatever happens to you, however unhappy you may be, you can escape into a book.

Love is the strongest feeling a person can feel and to have the one you love, love you back is the greatest gift you could ever receive.

All happiness and all unhappiness ... stems from one having a desire. And that is why mankind will always make their wishes.

Arbeiten und lieben — to work and to love; were these not Freud's measures of success?

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

Don't worry about your studies. When you want to do them well you will do them superbly. But for the moment the main thing is to get what little happiness there is in this wartorn world because "these are only good old days" now.

Maybe this is a characteristic of happy people. An ability to be entertained by the world.

Right now, at this moment in time, life was just right. He'd discovered this before. If you don't look forward and you don't look back, you can fix yourself in now and enjoy it.

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.

We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which we have to waste somehow or other. In the end it does not seem to matter much whether we have done so in making money, or practicing law, or reading or playing, or in any other way, as long as we felt we were deriving a maximum of happiness out of our doings.

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man. I'm not worried about my soul.

Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man.