Quotes About Happiness

there are few that can really be happy when we are dealing with a sentiment of such a kind that any satisfaction we can give it does no more, as a rule, than dislodge some pain. And yet sometimes a respite is granted us, and we have for a little while the illusion of being healed.

It has been said that beauty is the promise of happiness. Reversing the idea, the prospect of pleasure can also be the beginning of beauty.

I shall see myself that Morel is mine." This unmistakeableness in the eyes of everyone, in his own eyes, made M. de Charlus happiest of all. For the possession of what one loves is a joy greater than love itself.

Often those who hide their possession from everyone do so only for fear that the loved object will be taken away from them. And their happiness, by this prudent choice of silence, is diminished.

There can be no peace in mind of love, since what one has obtained is never anything but a new starting-point for further desires.

My happiness and my life needed Albertine to be virtuous, thus they had posited once for all that she was. Armed with this salutary faith, I could safely allow my mind to play sadly with the suppositions which it formulated without believing in them. I thought, "Perhaps she does love women," as one thinks, "I might die during the night"; we say the words to ourselves, but we do not believe them, we make plans for the morrow.

And Labruyère tells us that that is everything. 'To be with the people one loves, to speak to them, not to speak to them, it is all the same.' He is right; that is the only form of happiness

to seek happiness in the satisfaction of a desire of the mind was as naive as to attempt to reach the horizon by walking straight ahead. The further the desire advances, the further does real possession recede. So that if happiness, or at least the absence of suffering, can be found, it is not the satisfaction, but the gradual reduction and eventual extinction of desire that one should seek.

Everyone suffers, who doesn't, for God's sake? So there should be some kind of manual explaining how the hell to bring back happiness in spite of your troubles.

La verdadera felicidad no se encuentra ni en el jardín ni en la cocina, y no viene de los pájaros ni siquiera de este, ni del otro lado de la verja donde parece que la hierba es más verde. Surge del interior de cada uno de nosotros cuando conocemos la verdad de las cosas.

El amor le hace a uno sentirse bien- Si no es así, no es amor. -Pero parece amor -Si sientes dolor muchas más veces que felicidad, no es amor. Es algo más que te obliga a estar encerrada en tu propia cárcel, incapaz de ver que la puerta hacia la libertad está delante de ti abierta de par en par.

La felicidad es una elección

Writing is a mixed blessing. We, who are addicted, berate ourselves and feel guilty when we don't write and at the same time put it off and hunt for diversions. Why? Because the this that makes us the happiest is also tedious, hard and frustrating. Writing makes us crazy; not writing even crazier.

It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day, do something that makes your heart sing.

Escoffier, whose philosophy was "Good food is the basis of true happiness.

Failing to understand the workings of one's own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness.

I can at once become happy anywhere, for he is happy who has found himself a happy lot. In a word, happiness lies all in the functions of reason, in warrantable desires and virtuous practice.

Wherever a man lives, he may live well.

Don't let outward appearances mislead you into thinking that someone with more prestige, power or some other distinction must on that account be happy.

You can pass your life in an equable flow of happiness if you can follow the right way and think and act in the right way.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

of smiling strangers hanging on each other, holding up beer bottles, all of them seeming to be having a great time. He wondered how old the photos were

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.