Quotes About Happiness

In a daydream I used to have, all these places were points of happiness to me; all these places were lifeboats to my small drowning soul, for I would imagine myself entering and leaving them, and just that - entering and leaving over and over again - would see me through a bad feeling I did not have a name for. I only knew it felt a little like sadness but heavier than that.

She had too much of everything, and so she longed to have less; less, she was sure, would bring her happiness. To me it was a laugh and a relief to observe the unhappiness that too much can bring; I had been so used to observing the reults of too little.

I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very hard to take. They are inevitably looking for a happy ending. Perversely, I will not give the happy ending. I think life is difficult and that's that.

No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.

She drops the Happy Grenades when she dies. Tip

Aren't you, Catherine?" He smiled at her and she blushed with delight. Rufus liked Catherine so well, all of a sudden, that he smiled at her, and when she smiled back they were both happy and suddenly he was very much ashamed to have treated her so.

and gentle happy and peaceful, tasting the mean goodness of their living like the last of their suppers in their mouths.

If you would have your home and your surroundings happy, be happy. You can transform everything around you if you will transform yourself.

Joy comes and fills the self-emptied heart; it abides with the peaceful; its reign is with the pure.

He who would be blest, let him scatter blessings.

A sweet and happy soul is the ripened fruit of experience and wisdom, and it sheds abroad the invisible yet powerful aroma of its influence, gladdening the hearts of others, and purifying the world.

Make pure thy heart, and thou wilt make thy life rich, sweet and beautiful.

Selfhood is the source of suffering; Truth is the source of bliss.

Joy cannot remain with the selfish; it is wedded to Love.

Joy flees from the selfish, it deserts the quarrelsome; it is hidden from the impure.

Only think about the people you enjoy. Only read the books you enjoy, that make you happy to be human. Only go to the events that actually make you laugh or fall in love. Only deal with the people who love you back, who are winners and want you to win too.

Forget purpose. It's okay to be happy without one. The quest for a single purpose has ruined many lives.

Only worry about your own happiness, which doesn't have to be limited by anyone else's stupidity unless you allow it to be.

Stick with the people who love you and don't spend a single second on the rest. Life will be better that way.

There is no happiness if the things you believe are different than the things you do.

18 «Nell'esperienza di un grande amore tutto ciò che accade diventa un avvenimento nel suo ambito» (R. Guardini, L'essenza del Cristianesimo, Morcelliana, Brescia 1980, p. 12). 19 «La vita dell'uomo consiste nell'affetto che principalmente lo sostiene e nel quale trova la sua più grande soddisfazione» (cfr. san Tommaso, Summa Theologiae, II IIae, q. 179, a. 1).

For man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers ; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unjust that he should have to bear them. On the other hand, when he is happy, he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyse it, just as if happiness were his right.

Thus, sir, you see when faith is lacking, it becomes impossible to create certain states of happiness, for we lack the necessary humility. Vaingloriously, we try to substitute ourselves for this faith, creating thus for the rest of the world a reality which we believe after their fashion, while, actually, it doesn't exist.

Ina the Viking was out in her potato patch waving at him like some idiot. Some people thought life was just the spiffiest thing that ever happened.