Quotes About Happiness

Thirty bucks a share makes me a billionaire—and that's the ticket to happiness! A billion dollars buys me everything I ever wanted! … Maybe even love … Yeah, Lou, geeks need love, too.

happiness is actually more closely tied to how you perceive and emotionally react to the events and people around you. That's because people who perceive the world as positive or negative will react to it positively or negatively.

Health is our model of all things invisible and unfelt. If, in this day and age, we rejected the need to live longer, what would rich Westerners live for instead?

People need people and the happiest people are surrounded with friendly flesh. If you have ten kids they'll be so sweet -- ten really sweet kids! Have twelve! What if there were 48 pro baseball teams, you could see a damn lot more games! And in this fashion we get away from tragedy. Because tragedy comes when someone gets too special.

dislodge the cultural brainwash that makes so many people so completely miserable. I

to be paid for one's joy is to steal.

The Beatles' music still lifts the spirit and is passed joyfully from generation to generation.

joy is not just about being happy. Joy is a rigorous spiritual practice of saying yes to life on life's terms

I tried my best to fight oppression, but America's at her happiest ruled by liars.

The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.

I sense a wisp of wistful vermouth in your happiness martini.

Drunk and smart--twice blessed.

Moreover, most mass movements are angry and gloomy movements, hostile toward well-adjusted, happy, and successful individuals. Again, this is evident

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…

What is best about our lives -the moments when we are, as we would put it, at our happiest- is both pleasant and deeply unpleasant. Happiness is not a feeling; it is a way of being. If we focus on the feelings, we will miss the point.

People say you can't have peace without a war, but on the contrary they say they don't support war. You can not, ever achieve happiness from focusing on suffering, you have to change your perspective. World peace starts with Inner peace.

Everyone loves to be loved.

There is no happiness like the pounding of so many horses into one. I imagine I hear the horses laugh. I think it every time. I think that running is the way a horse may laugh out loud. When I am older I will believe that following in their wake has filled me with the inconsolable joy of animals.

An old man who's happy not to have cowshit on his neck.

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.

What I had not realized then, but now know only too well, is that sparks carry within them the wish to be relieved of the burden of brightness. And that is why I no longer write, and why the dark is is my freedom and my happiness.

There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.

How do you find happiness?" Anna paused, then said, "You start by looking right around you for the blessings you have.

Sometimes happiness comes to us. But usually you have to seek it out.