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Quotes About Happiness

The happiest people are the people with the best attitudes, not the best lives.
~ Unknown
Life is good. It is precious. It is a great blessing. Even on its worst days. And in its deepest valleys you must remember the view from its highest mountains. You must not forget that happiness is a matter of perspective, not circumstance.
~ Unknown
Alonso ha de ser tuyo; que serás dichosa espero con hombre que es en Castilla "la gala de Medina, la flor de Olmedo.
~ Lope de Vega
My main priority now is that my kids are happy; that's my number-one focus in life. Are these little people happy, content, and getting everything they need? Everything after that is secondary. Before, my work was my main priority -- even above myself.
~ Unknown
Tried to be someone I knew that I wasn't I thought I could make myself happy with you
~ Unknown
I love seeing the Oscar films and epic dramas. But I'd rather watch a romantic comedy than any other kind of movie. There's something about movies like these that make you feel so good and happy and that you want to live in that world -- to be that girl and be part of the fairy tale. I have always believed in fairy tales.
~ Unknown
In the past, love for me has always meant forever, and sure, you still nurse some of those fantasies, but I don't try to force it anymore. I hung on to my fairy-tale ideals for a long time. But where I am now, what I've been through, there are no rules. There are lots of ways it can turn out instead of just one. There are so many different kinds of happiness, not just the one you learned about when you were 5 years old.
~ Unknown
Don't wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty. Chocolate isn't like premarital sex. It will not make you pregnant. And it always feels good.
~ Unknown
Don't wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty. Chocolate isn't like premarital sex. It will not make you pregnant. And it always feels good.
~ Unknown
The groom is like a flower of gold. When he walks, blossoms at his feet unfold.
~ Unknown
I'll always be happy if they'd leave me alone in that delightful and unknown furthest corner, apart from struggles, putrefactions and nonsense; the ultimate corner of sugar and toast, where the mermaids catch the branches of the willows and the heart opens to a flute's sharpness.
~ Unknown
Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety of the power of the country, the greatest happiness of the greatest number, or the support of any speculative idea, the State becomes for the time inevitably absolute. Liberty alone demands for its realisation the limitation of the public authority, for liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition.
~ Lord Acton
We prefer to avoid men, and to shun the world, in order that we may seek in retirement, the only peace that is possessing, the only happiness which is left us to enjoy.
~ Lord Acton
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
~ Lord Byron
On with the dance! Let joy be undefined!
~ Lord Byron
To have joy, one must share it.
~ Lord Byron
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
~ Lord Byron
On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet.
~ Lord Byron
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
~ Lord Byron
Always laugh when you can. It is a cheap medicine.
~ Lord Byron
What else can joy be, but the spreading joy?
~ Lord Byron
Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.
~ Lord Byron
All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99
~ Unknown
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness its poison
~ Lord Chesterfield