Quotes About Happiness

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

Now it is thus with time in Elfland: in the eternal beauty that dreams in that honied air nothing stirs or fades or dies, nothing seeks its happiness in movement or change or a new thing, but has its ecstasy in the perpetual contemplation of all the beauty that has ever been, and which always glows over those enchanted lawns as intense as when first created by incantation or song.

Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.

They say that Hope is happiness But genuine Love must prize the past; And Mem'ry wakes the thoughts that bless: They rose first -- they set the last. And all that mem'ry loves the most Was once our only hope to be: And all that hope adored and lost Hath melted into memory. Alas! It is delusion all-- The future cheats us from afar: Nor can we be what we recall, Nor dare we think on what we are.

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you to miserable in comfort.

My happiest childhood memories are of times in our backyard. My mother had an old clothesline that hung out in front. It seemed like it stretched a mile long, and I loved sitting in the sun while she hung clothes.

Mom. Wife. Filmmaker. Dog lover. Happy. What else is there?

Happy sneaked out of the room and joined merriment down the hall.

It was our special night and we held it for as long as we could. It was something that belonged to us. A night that would be added to our long list of memories. It was our happy ending. And it was the last time we would ever be together again.

Cuando la felicidad es demasiado grande, cuando a uno le curan de una herida demasiado mala, cuando todo es demasiado bonito, sólo hay un presentimiento que un hombre sensato pueda tener: algo está a punto de joderse.

I love you madly," she said. "I shall make you happy if I have to kill somebody to do it. But that ought not to be necessary.

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

I love her,' he said. 'I've loved her since we were children. But you-' 'It's my fault, is it?' she said. 'I'm the demon destroying your happiness? Only look at yourself and listen to yourself. Like every other man, you want what you can't have. Like every other man, you'll stay interested - even obsessed - until you get it. You came here this evening because you can't think straight - because it drives you mad not to have something you want.

The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can.

Happiness (t) = w0+ w1 ?t?jCRj+ w2 ?t?jEVj+ w3 ?t?jRPEj Which all boils down to: Happiness equals reality minus expectations.

Every laugh and good time that comes my way feels ten times better than before I knew such sadness.

You can let more people into the mix who could possibly make you happy. Or you can hold out for that two percent of men who you assume meet your requirements, and hope that coincidentally, someone in that two percent feels that you're in his two percent. And even then, the people you assume to meet your requirements might in fact not be the right fit for you.

You want to mute the pain? You'll also mute the joy.

Which all boils down to: Happiness equals reality minus expectations.

The Noonday Demon: "The opposite of depression isn't happiness, but vitality.

If you go through life picking and choosing, if you don't recognize that "the perfect is the enemy of the good," you may deprive yourself of joy.

joy isn't pleasure; it's anticipatory pain.

John said that when he was struggling with the pressure of his marriage and his career, he used to think that there'd be a point when he'd be happy again, and then when Gabe died, he thought he'd never be happy again. Now, he says, he's come to feel it's not either/or, yes or no, always or never. "Maybe happiness is sometimes,

In reality, there are many people we could be happy with. It's just that your soul develops in different ways with different people.