Quotes About Happiness

We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.

Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old.

A laugh is a smile that bursts.

I put in no claims either for happiness, for gratification, or even for the common comforts of life: yet, surely, I had a right to exist!

Farewell! Dearest and most beloved of men_whatever may be my fate_be happiness yours! Once more, my lingering, foreboding heart, repeats farewell!

What is it we desire? pleasure, happiness. What! the pleasure of an instant, only; or that which is more solid and permanent?

Hello," he said. "Tom?" A whoop of joy. "Alice, where are you? Are you all right?" "Never better, Tom. And you?

Be a loyal friend. Be a kind person. Work hard. And choose to be happy.

C'est fou, quand on a huit ans, il n'y a rien de tel qu'une pizza pepperoni pour vous rendre heureux.

As long as Luciano and Arianna were together, he felt that all was right with the world.

He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.

Human beings were meant to love, and life was empty without that.

The only power she wanted over him was the power to make him happy. . . . She wanted them to be equal in their loving, not master and slave.

Small pleasures are the best because they're everywhere. Anyone who needs grand spectacles is destined to be disappointed much of the time.

I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

If it please the Devil, one day I may have happiness. That will be all-sufficient. I shall then analyze no more. I shall be a different being. But meanwhile I shall eat.

Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion

a half-dollar's worth will sometimes do for the poor what hundreds of dollars may fail to do for the rich; it makes them happy and grateful

The happy ending is our national belief.

Love had done this to her, for the second time. Love was bad for her. There must be certain people who were allergic to love, and she was one of them. Not only was it bad for her; it made her bad; it poisoned her. Before she knew him, not only had she been far, far happier but she had been nicer. Loving him was turning her into an awful person, a person she hated.

I've done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness.

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.

Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.