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Quotes About Happiness

In a happy world, there would be no art. I retreat too often into my imagination. In a happy world, the experience of reality would be enough.
~ John Fowles
He won't be happy till he gets it, said Michael, at last: The only thing is, you see, he doesn't know what IT is.
~ John Galsworthy
Pentru tanarul Lennan urma apoi o perioada stranie, in care nu-si dadea seama de la un minut la altul daca era sau nu fericit, cautand sa fie mereu cu Anna, agitandu-se daca nu reusea, necajindu-se daca ea vorbea sau zambea altuia;cand se afla insa alaturi de ea tot nelinistit si nemultumit era, suferind din pricina timiditatii sale
~ John Galsworthy
MRS. PEACHUM Well, Polly; as far as one woman can forgive another, I forgive thee.—Your father is too fond of you, hussy. POLLY Then all my sorrows are at an end. MRS. PEACHUM A mighty likely speech in troth, for a wench who is just married!
~ John Gay
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
~ John Glenn
Women are happy when they believe their needs will be met. When a woman is upset, overwhelmed, confused, exhausted, or hopeless what she needs most is simple companionship. She needs to feel she is not alone. She needs to feel loved and cherished.
~ John Gray
Practise doing things for yourself and not depending on him to make you happy.
~ John Gray
I learned it is not enough just to be happy with what we have; we must honor our material desires as well.
~ John Gray
To be genuinely happy requires dipping down into the well to release, heal, and purify the emotions.
~ John Gray
In the struggle for life, a taste for truth is a luxury – or else a disability: only tormented persons want truth. Man is like other animals, wants food and success and women, not truth. Only if the mind Tortured by some interior tension has despaired of happiness: then it hates its life-cage and seeks further.
~ John Gray
Instead of feeling hopeless, he realized he did know how to support her. He had just gotten sidetracked by thinking his money should make her happy when really his caring and understanding of her had been the source of her contentment.
~ John Gray
Global studies reveal that as women become more educated and financially independent, their risk of staying single or getting a divorce increases, their happiness decreases, and their stress levels rise.
~ John Gray
When people say their goal in life is to be happy they are telling you they are miserable. Thinking of happiness as a project, they look for fulfillment at some future time. The present slips by, and anxiety creeps in. (…) so they turn to philosophy, and nowadays therapy, which offer relief from their unease.
~ John Gray
I needed forgiveness, because there were lots of sins in my past. I needed peace, because I'd been at war my entire life. I needed love, because I hated everybody. I needed strength, because deep inside I knew how weak I was. I needed happiness, because I'd been miserable for so long.
~ John Grisham
tower. I heard the laughter
~ John Grisham
Nor did she like society's way of presuming she was unhappy because she had not found the right guy.
~ John Grisham
I needed peace, because I'd been at war my entire life. (...) I needed strength, because deep inside I knew how weak I was. I needed happiness, because I'd been miserable for so long
~ John Grisham
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
~ John Gunther
Early that morning, she had written to her mother to say she was so excited
~ John Guy
all I can tell you is that I account myself one of the happiest women in the world.
~ John Guy
THE DAY BEFORE Darnley's assassination was one of the happiest Mary could remember.
~ John Guy
Mary happily reunited with her mother, watching it all from a blue and gold viewing pavilion on the west bank of the Seine.
~ John Guy
Our joy now and forever is inextricably tied to our capacity to love.
~ John H. Groberg
Perhaps I'd be happier if I had a boring job like Filly, but then I wouldn't have any time to myself. I waste so much time and then I resent it when I don't have time to waste.
~ Unknown