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Quotes About Happiness

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is no place more delightful than home.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete.
~ Unknown
While I was not entirely satisfied with the circumstances of my existence, I felt like the possibility of improvement still existed. That I could make happiness happen.
~ Marcy Dermansky
There is no way to be completely happy without being oblivious to the world around you.
~ Unknown
I have loved skipping since I was a little girl and I have never been able to restrain myself when an open stretch of sidewalk or path beckons me.
~ Unknown
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a daily basis.
~ Unknown
It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis.
~ Margaret Bonnano
In real love, you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.
~ Unknown
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
~ Margaret Cho
Radford. Miriam's face was animated. She laughed
~ Unknown
I've got selfish in my old age. I live as I like.
~ Margaret Drabble
Longevity has fucked up our pensions, our work–life balance, our health services, our housing, our happiness. It's fucked up old age itself.
~ Margaret Drabble
She is pleased to see that this healthy and happy young person shares some of her metaphysical defiance. It is an exoneration.
~ Margaret Drabble
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison.
~ Unknown
This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.
~ Unknown
Anyhow, isn't it a bit wrong to think happiness is all smooth and serene. Isn't it mostly a great energetic struggle - you against the universe - a great whopping opponent, with the referee in its pocket?
~ Margaret Mahy
Ogni vera gioia ha una paura dentro.
~ Margaret Mazzantini
What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
~ Margaret Oliphant
bitter is a bad way to live!
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
And yet, I felt a surge of exhilaration just thinking about that night. Not just because I'd met the prince and fallen in love and started on my course toward happiness ever after, but because I'd made something happen. I'd done something everybody had told me I couldn't. I'd changed my life all by myself. Having a fairy godmother would have ruined everything.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
She expressed an opinion that the happiness of a woman in Paradise is beneath the soles of her husband's feet,' he enlightened humorously, seemingly not at all averse to her obvious desire to be comforted.
~ Unknown
There was so much pure fun in the world that it didn't pay to grow up too soon.
~ Unknown