Quotes About Happiness

Anyway, in those years, I was happy, as to one extent or another I have always been happy. The forest was not a wilderness to me, but served instead as my private garden, comforting in spite of its vastness, and endlessly mysterious. The more familiar a place becomes, the more mysterious it becomes, as well, if you are alert to the truth of things. I have found this to be the case all of my life.

I read to keep from being sad.

Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one is a life diminished.

Laughter is a balm for the afflicted, the best defense against despair, the only medicine for melancholy. -Groucho Marx

I'm sure that your life is filled with as much happiness, charm, wonder, and abiding fear as anyone could wish.

Envy, Bob. Envy eats them alive. If you had money, they'd envy you that. But since you don't, they envy you for having such a good, bright, loving daughter. They envy you for just being a happy man. They envy you for not envying them. One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.

There is no other rational response but happiness. Despair is a foolish squandering of precious time.

We get only one life. We shouldn't waste a day of it in anger.

Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happiness.

His base sins were envy - of beauty, of happiness - and pride, bending the whole world to his view of creation, and these were the greatest sins of all, the same transgressions over which the devil himself, once an archangel, had stumbled and fallen a long way out of Heaven.

Out of the seething crowd, out of the light and the darkness, came Blossom Rosedale, the one and only Happy Monster, which was a name that she had given herself, not because she loathed the way she looked but because she was truly happy in spite of all her suffering.

She said...she said don't be scared, we wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy, babies laugh at everything, we was born happy and to make a better world.

She says that each of us has his or her role in life, and if we know ourselves well enough to understand what that role is, we will be happy doing nothing but what we can do best.

One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.

We sometimes take refuge in misery, a strange kind of comfort... But no matter what happens in life, happiness is there for us, waiting to be embraced.

If emotions were universal, then in one sense he was not alone, never had been alone, and never could be alone....No pain or happiness was unique. All humanity drank from the same river of emotion; and by drinking, every race, religion, and nationality became one indivisible species.

Even when acceptance is achieved and a degree of happiness attained, joy often remains elusive forever, like a promise of water in a dry well once brimming but now holding only the deep, damp smell of past sustenance. Yet

Destiny struggles to reassert the pattern that was meant to be. But sometimes, happily it fails. ... Destiny struggles to reassert the pattern that was meant to be, (...) And sometimes, happily, it succeeds.

But to me, right now, this week anyway, Friday is great. Friday is beautiful.

Henry Ward Beecher once said, "The dog was created especially for children. He is the god of frolic.

At last her mother looks up from the book and smiles and says, "I read to keep from being sad.

But the optimist, unlike the pessimist, believes that life has meaning, that there is something to learn from every adversity, and even that the absurdity of such an excess of misfortune will likely seem at least somewhat amusing after enough time has passed. That is why, years after they have lost everything, optimists are frequently richer and happier than ever, while pessimists often had nothing to lose in the first place.

she was generous with her time and energy, and in her own generosity she found joy.

hormones intended to induce a sense of well-being.