Quotes About Happiness

Cornelia—who was in town dropping off her children at her parents' house for a week of, as she put it, "unfettered joy, limitless pie, and irreversible spoiling

At first she was happy because she had decided to be, and then she relaxed into her happiness and just felt it.

I want to be a fun mom. Not a gasping for air mom.

one again, even if it was a painted smile. Sometimes a painted smile was the only one you had.

Chiara grew serious. 'Our generation hardly knows what happiness is,' she said. 'Everything's been messed up for us. Even when the war is over, there'll be years of gloom to follow. Take this in both hands, darling. It's a gift from the gods.

Life was not perfect, but everyone deserved a shot at happiness. You had to take your chances. Sometimes you had to accept a compromise. And just because you'd made one mistake didn't mean you were doomed to repeat that mistake, or live with its consequences forever.

For my own part, I have never found happiness in love.

If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness.

It is more important to live the life one wishes to live, and to go down with it if necessary, quite contentedly, than to live more profitably but less happily.

I should have known this would happen. But I got happy, and soft. I forgot that secrets never keep.

The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead.

The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead. The grand and the simple. They are equally wonderful.

Joy is not getting what you want; it's appreciating what you have.

Joy is not getting what you want. It's fully appreciating what you have. And it starts with the basics, like water.

Don't accumulate possessions, accumulate experiences or vice versa–

The healthiest, holiest, and happiest people on the planet are those who laugh at themselves the most.

Psalm 37:4: "Delight yourself in the LORD;8 and He will give you the desires of your heart.

we should listen to most as we choose a vocation is the voice that we might think we should listen to least, and that is the voice of our own gladness. What can we do that makes us the gladdest?…I believe that if it is a thing that makes us truly glad, then it is a good thing and it is our thing."20 I might even add, it's a God thing. If there is a lesson to be learned from Eric

How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos. G.K. CHESTERTON

All you need is one friend who makes you laugh, who laughs at the same things you do.

We have to be careful about what we project out into the future, because nothing else has the potential to create more unhappiness and emotional misery than an unfulfilled expectation.

One of the greatest joys to me is making every single person in the audience laugh and forget their worries.

The ancient sages understood that the good life needed to be more than just survival, that perfect health and many years to enjoy it was as real a satisfaction as could be found,

Why do the wicked attract us so? What hint of glamour, hope for material gain, or assumption of fleeting happiness do they radiate, that we can find ourselves so easily, fatally taken in?