Quotes About Happiness

Por qué es que los que tienen tan poquito a menudo parecen tener tanto? ¿Y por qué es que los que tienen tanto parecen tener tan poquito de lo que en realidad importa?

Never before have so many people had so much and felt so dissatisfied. No wonder we often feel so dissatisfied. No matter how much we have, it can't compare to what others appear to have.

Normally, we're never satisfied.

God says happiness is contentment with what you already have, with what He provides you, with what you can share.

Instead of seeking to serve one another, we wrongly believe that there's one person out there who exists solely to make us happy.

Loving the One is critically important to finding happiness with your Two. And loving your Two is one of the best ways to love the One.

God's highest agenda is not our immediate happiness. I believe that God is much more committed to our eternal joy, our spiritual growth, and the condition of our hearts.

Nuestra cultura nos ha condicionado para que creamos que aquellas cosas que no tenemos son las que nos harán felices… sin detenernos a pensar en que todas esas cosas hace cinco años ni siquiera existían.

One can be truly happy only as long as one does not know how truly happy one is. Having

What I'm feeling, I think, is joy. And it's been some time since I've felt that blinkered rush of happiness. This might be one of those rare events that lasts, one that'll be remembered and recalled as months and years wind and ravel. One of those sweet, significant moments that leaves a footprint in your mind.

Everything since the beginning of time was working together to make my happiness possible: and then you. You walked into the audiovisual lab in your flannel shirt...and you fucked it up! You fucked everything up! Do you understand that? Because of you, the entire universe is ruined...forever!" --Kari, The Pavilion

Eleanor Roosevelt would have said curiosity. As she declared in 1934, "I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity."45 Indeed, recent research has linked curiosity to happiness, satisfying relationships, increased personal growth, increased meaning in life, and increased creativity

As Confucius is reputed to have said some 2,500 years ago, "Find a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Unhappiness does not come from the way things are, but from the difference between how things are and how we think they should be

All we wanted was the simplest things: to eat good food, to sleep at night, to smile, to laugh, to be well.

Me pregunto si llegaré a ser alhun día feliz o si me pasaré el resto de mi vida luchando por sobrevivir. Aunque sobrevivo fabulosamente no quiero quejarme. Preferiría esperar lo peor y tener lo mejor... Maria callas

Mi vida conyugal es muy feliz y plena... pero me resulta imposible conservar mi rango de manera razonable, puesto que ya no soy dueño y señor, simplemente marido. Príncipe Alberto de Inglaterra.

No tener que obedecer es dicha mayor que mandar en toda la Tierra».

Las pocas veces que he sido feliz he tenido profundo miedo ¿cómo iba a pagar la factura? Solo los insensatos —o los no nacidos— son felices sin temor.

Sin embargo recuerdo: una vez en mi juventud fui feliz compartiendo el único cigarrillo en un cuarto de pensión fui feliz haciendo el amor a la intemperie entre los juncos fui feliz sin hotel ni casa ni teléfono ni lencería de encaje. Tenía solo dieciocho años.

Alguien dijo que siempre partimos del lugar donde hubiéramos sido felices.

Wealth, status, and power have become in our culture all too powerful symbols of happiness. ... And we assume that if only we could acquire some of those same symbols, we would be nuch happier.

We are always getting to live, as Ralph Waldo Emerson used to say, but never living. Or as poor Frances learned in the children's story, it is always bread and jam tomorrow, never brad and jam today.

Before and after... I heard a thousand times that a boy, or a man, can't make you happy, that you have to be happy on your own before you can be happy with another person. All I can say is, I wish it were true.