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Quotes About Happiness

Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together — man, you got it.
~ Colin Powell
Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great!
~ Colin Powell
A magpie can be happy or sad: sometimes so happy that he sits on a high, high gum tree and rolls the sunrise around in his throat like beads of pink sunlight; and sometimes so sad that you would expect the tears to drip off his beak. This magpie was like that.
~ Unknown
The Outsider is always unhappy, but he is the agent that ensures happiness for millions of 'Insiders'.
~ Colin Wilson
She put her hands together in a pious attitude and segued into a Princess Bride persona. "Mawwiage . . . mawwiage is what bwings us togevah today . . . mawwiage and twue wuv.
~ Colleen Coble
Was this really happening? She was singing a Springsteen song with Ridge Jackson. Their gazes locked as they "sang" into the forks. A smile curved her lips, and giggles bubbled up until she couldn't sing at all.
~ Colleen Coble
The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.
~ Colley Cibber
Tea! Thou soft, thou sober, sage and venerable liquid ... to whose glorious insipidity, I owe the happiest moments of my life, let me fall prostrate.
~ Colley Cibber
Money Can't Buy Happiness, but it can buy things that make you happy....
~ Unknown
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich.
~ Unknown
With all respects to heaven, I like it here.
~ Colum McCann
Complete happiness is not present in the nature of humans.
~ Unknown
Contentment is key to inner peace.
~ Unknown
Just surviving isn't living.
~ Unknown
Patience, gratitude and generosity are the only three components you need to live in pure contentment.
~ Unknown
The secret to lasting happiness is being excited for life.
~ Unknown
There were the sad times, there were the happy times and then all the time between seems so empty now.
~ Unknown
To be happy is to have freedom.
~ Unknown
True and lasting happiness can never be achieved in this world far human nature and the very nature of this life do not allow if so.
~ Unknown
I know your sick and tired of arguing But you can't keep it bottled in Jealousy, we got to swallow it Your heart and mind baby follow it Smile, happiness you could model it And when you feel opposite I just want you to know Your whole being is beautiful I'ma do the best I can do Cause I'm my best when I'm with you
~ Common
I do not accept evil. Man is perfect. The soul does not fall. Progress exists. . . . Up till now, misfortune has been described in order to inspire terror and pity. I will describe happiness in order to inspire their contraries. . . . As long as my friends do not die, I will not speak of death.
~ Comte de Lautreamont
She wanders on like a poplar leaf borne upon a whirlwind of unconscious associations, she, her youth, her illusions and her former happiness remembered now through the mists of a ruined mind.
~ Comte de Lautreamont
I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world.
~ Unknown
Realize that this—the belief that you will be happy if you only get what you want—is an illusion. It's something that allows you to release responsibility for being happy right now, because "someday" everything will line up just right. That day may never come. Happiness isn't getting everything you want. It's appreciating what you have and staying open to the limitless possibilities before you.
~ Unknown