Quotes About Happiness

He was somewhat of a loner by temperament--because though never wholly happy when alone, he was usually slightly more miserable when with other people.

A very poor man lives upon crumbs, and smiles gratefully—through tears. 6

I renounced complete happiness in order to secure a part of it.

But I think happiness springs from another source, a far deeper one that doesn't depend on will because it comes from love.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Nuestra envidia siempre dura más que la felicidad de quien envidiamos" (Heráclito)

Und ganz am Ende, in den freien Raum unter dem letzten Marchen, hatte sie mit ihrer windschiefen Schrift geschrieben: Und sie lebten glucklich und zufrieden. Paul und Ida auch.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

Sin duda los imbéciles pasan por ser dichosos. Pero la ignorancia no podía combatir el mal, sino sólo ignorarlo.

Timelessness is the ideal of pleasure.

MutluluÄŸun öznel duygulardan fazlas?n? talep eden nesnel bir durum olduÄŸu düÅŸüncesi etkin bir ÅŸekilde bulan?klaÅŸt?r?lm??t?r; bu düÅŸüncenin geçerliliÄŸi "insan" türünün samimi dayan??mas?na baÄŸl?d?r, ki bu dayan??may? kar??t s?n?flara ve uluslara bölünmüÅŸ bir toplum gösteremez.

The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Nog een geluk dat Zoals met de gek uit het grapje die zich voortdurend met een hamer op het hoofd sloeg, en naar de reden gevraagd, zei: "Omdat het zo prettig is, als ik ermee ophou"- zo is het een beetje met mij. Ik ben ermee opgehouden je te verliezen. Ik ben je kwijt. Misschien is dat geluk: een geluk bij een ongeluk. Misschien is geluk: Nog een geluk dat. Dat ik aan jou kan terugdenken, bv., in plaats van aan een ander.

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

What troopsOf generous boys in happiness thus bred—Saturnians through life's Tempe led,Went from the North and came from the South,With golden mottoes in the mouth,To lie down midway on a bloody bed.

The Holy Spirit, the messenger of so great a happiness, like Noah's dove with an olive-branch, flies, at the appointed moment of grace, to the elect, and effectually offers and brings home to them the peace decreed by the Father, and purchased by Christ: hence peace is said to be by the Holy Ghost, Rom. 14:17.

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

There was a sky. There was a body. And a planet underneath it. And it was all lovely. And it did not matter. He had never been happy before. And it did not matter.

She knew, then, that this solemn form of joy, so pure because it had no content, so reliable because it relied on nobody else, was the state for which she would henceforth strive.

Finding bliss becomes one with the fear of losing it.

Nothing too bad could happen around children drinking milkshakes.