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Quotes About Happiness

I should check now and then to make sure I am not alone too much, or unhappy with other people too often.
~ Lydia Davis
If I am playing a board game with people close to me and we are happy, I must be sure we don't quarrel before the end of it. I must be sure that at some later time we don't play another board game that is unhappy. I should check now and then to make sure I am not alone too much, or unhappy with other people too often. I should add them up, now and then: what are my happy memories so far?
~ Lydia Davis
I am happy the leaves are growing large so quickly. Soon they will hide the neighbor and her screaming child.
~ Lydia Davis
I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance––it's a silly thing to strive for. But, satisfaction––if you seek satisfaction you can succeed.
~ Lydia Lunch
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
~ Lydia M. Child
[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.
~ Lydia Maria Child
Não sei explicar mas o que quero dizer é que acreditar no homem não me deixa tão feliz como acreditar nessas histórias absurdas que os homens contam.
~ Unknown
Mulher sem homem acaba tão complexada, tão infeliz. Com homem também, tenho ganas de dizer-lhe e dar-lhe o espelho na mão.
~ Unknown
Não conte a ninguém, mas descobri, a bolha de sabão é o amor
~ Unknown
To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.
~ Unknown
Let us get rid of this notion that we must always associate the thoughts of God with a spirit of great solemnity. Gayety and God are not mutually exclusive.
~ Lyman Abbott
"In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child," says good old Santa Claus; and if he had his way the children would all be beautiful, for all would be happy.
~ Lyman Frank Baum
The future seems a little gloomy! Go to bed early, sleep well, eat moderately at breakfast; the future looks brighter. The world's outlook may not have changed, but our capacity for dealing with it has. Happiness, or unhappiness, depends to some extent on external conditions, but also, and in most cases chiefly, on our own physical and mental powers. Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard.
~ Unknown
We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love is life in vain.
~ Unknown
Most of us can remember a time when a birthday -- especially if it was one's own -- brightened the world as if a second sun had risen.
~ Unknown
The happiness even of the naturalist depends in some measure upon his ignorance, which still leaves him new worlds of this kind to conquer. He may have reached the very Z of knowledge in the books, but he still feels half ignorant until he has confirmed each bright particular with his eyes.
~ Unknown
We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it.
~ Unknown
Getting your finances right is essential to 100-year life, but money is far from being the most important resource. Family, friendships, mental health and happiness are all crucial components.
~ Unknown
is good to remember ourselves that it is our intangible assets – our family and friends, interests and passions – that are ultimately the greatest source of lifetime happiness.
~ Unknown
In the words of George Valliant, the study's pioneer, there are two pillars to happiness: one is love; the other is finding a way of coping with life that doesn't push love away. Earning more does make you happier, but love makes you happy.
~ Unknown
They are the adventurers with no goal other than the everyday joy of discovery – they are galumphing.
~ Unknown
Galloping here Galloping there Rollicking, frolicking, everywhere! (Tala's favorite part...)
~ Unknown
Money makes the world go around love makes the spin worth the ride
~ Unknown
You deserve to have a prosperous and abundant life!
~ Lynn A. Robinson