Quotes About Happiness

desire is the source of all sorrows, and desirelessness leads to the most intense delight.

My passion is doing movies, and as long as I keep doing that, I'll be happy. I want to do movies, fun roles and dramatic ones. I love all of it.

My passion is doing movies, so as long as I keep doing that I will be happy.

I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.

I gave my smile its liberty, with no curfew nor bounds.

There is only now. And look! How rich we are in it.

Well, I've been here since thirty-eight. I was at Elgen first. I did thirty childbirths there; before Elgen I hadn't done any. Then came the war. My husband died in Kiev. So did my two children. Boys. A bomb. More people have died around me than in any battle in war. They died when there was no war, before there was a war. All the same. Grief is like happiness: it comes in all forms.

Ma la felicità è come il cero sull'altare: si consuma prima che il voto si avveri.

Cel ce seam?n? trec pluguri negre aproape de inim? cel ce seam?n? ?tie c? niciodat? nu voi mai sem?na în aceea?i oglind? atom cu atom arunc?-n brazd? mizeria de a tr?i acum îmi ajunge indiferen?a pentru a fi fericit îmi ajunge blînde?ea pentru a umili tirania înc?p??înatul timp de a fi fix în alte chipuri

Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman . . . as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing . . . [But] happiness, it turns out, will be to share with you the burden I can't share with anyone else.

All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow.

Hold all men in mind as being healthy, happy, and prosperous. When you do this you are helping others and sowing good for yourself. Always send out thoughts of love and service. They will come back to you laden with their kind.

My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.

She seemed to have waited so long to hear those words that for a moment the earth stood still, and the moon, the trees, the grotesque shadows across the heath, became in that instant transfixed in her memory. How shall I bear this exquisite happiness? It is too much: it will destroy me.

There is still, I think, not enough recognition by teachers of the fact that the desire to think - which is fundamentally a moral problem - must be induced before the power is developed. Most people, whether men or women, wish above all else to be comfortable, and thought is a pre-eminently uncomfortable process; it brings to the individual far more suffering than happiness in a semi-civilised world which still

You know you wouldn't be happy unless you married an odd sort of person

There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.

Here's a funny question: What is your favorite word? Think about it—maybe it's a word that makes you absolutely happy, or a word that sounds gloriously beautiful, or a word that evokes awe and wonder. Maybe you are reminded of a great time when you hear it, or maybe it represents your life's dream. So, what is it? What is your favorite word of all words? Thought about it yet? Good. And now, think why .

I am happy. I have something to accomplish, create, and achieve. I am happy.

Time had healed her of it, time and joyful circumstances of a personal nature.

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach. Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to entertain a hope.

Think of happiness as a state of inner liberty. That is exactly what it is. It is never anything else. It will help if you forget the word happiness altogether. Substitute the term inner liberty. It works favorably upon your thinking habits. It connects inner liberty with the genuine meaning of happiness. And that puts you on the right track.

There is no real happiness for those on the wrong side. The greatest pleasure in life is the security of the true side. You can vainly try to win over the world or you can nicely be over the world. Your task is to change your operating center from strained imagination to relaxed reality.

Your wrongness is your present idea of happiness. Try to see how it is wrecking your life. You have one real chance. That once chance is to find yourself wrong. Never forget the first sentence of this paragraph, which is, your wrongness is your present idea of happiness. Replace that idea.