Quotes About Happiness

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.

Pleasure comes naturally as a by-product of pursuing something else, like the good of another person, and the best way to ruin pleasure is to make it your goal.

Only a fool asks for happiness in this foolish, worn world. We are . . . content . . . together. That is enough for a while.

Life is short, especially if you are happy. And life is wide; especially if you are old, and still have a chance for happiness. But, you have to watch life as you live it, because life is always deep.

The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.

Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.

The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

Kebahagian anda tumbuh berkembang manakal anda membantu orang lain. Namun, bilamana anda tidak mencoba membantu sesama, kebahagian akan layu dan mengering. Kebahagian bagaikan sebuah tanaman, harus di sirami setiap hari dengan sikap dan tindakan memberi

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

I'll make Goyle do lines, it'll kill him, he hates writing," said Ron happily. He lowered his voice to Goyle's low grunt and, screwing up his face in a look of pained concentration, mimed writing in midair. I... must... not... look... like... a... baboon's... backside.

He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though...keep up with my news...check if I'm happy...

Happiness can be found in even the Darkest of places. If only one remembers to turn on the light. -Albus Dumbledore

Let no one who loves be called unhappy. For even love unreturned has its rainbow.

Happiness is distraction from the human tragedy.

for what is life, a good life, but the accumulation of small pleasures?

Not clinging to goals, even worthy goals, may be the way out of unhappiness.

We simply have to learn how to skillfully get out of our own way. Getting out of our own way allows the deep reservoirs of peace and happiness within us to reveal themselves so we may gain more ready access to them.

it's difficult to be curious and unhappy at the same time.

But tension, unhappiness or exhaustion aren't 'problems' that can be solved. They are emotions. They reflect states of mind and body. As such, they cannot be solved – only felt. Once you've felt them – that is, acknowledged their existence – and let go of the tendency to explain or get rid of them, they are much more likely to vanish naturally, like the mist on a spring morning.