Quotes About Happiness

He who laughs, lasts!

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Hephaistion had known for many ages that if a god should offer him one gift in all his lifetime, he would choose this. Joy hit him like a lightning-bolt.

She stood laughing in the water. Her laughter made my backbone ripple. It had neither shame nor shamelessness; she laughed alone, please with her victory over strange monstrous things.

Just lately I have been happier than I ever had the right to expect, and as one goes around the world one sees that happiness is hard to come by and seldom lasts for long.

He was not analytical enough yet to have discovered that there are certain loves, and certain phases of love, which bring perfect happiness only in their pauses and intervals, as water grows clear when one's progress has ceased to stir it.

Todavía no era lo suficientemente analítico para darse cuenta de que hay ciertos amores, y ciertas fases del amor, que solo producen la felicidad perfecta en sus pausas e intervalos, igual que el agua se vuelve cristalina cuando el avance de uno deja de removerla.

Yet she [Jane Porter] asks little enough: a quiet life, peace, and if not active happiness, that resignation which after the hot days of youth are over, passes for contentment.

My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it.

Giovanni was easy to love. He was not afraid to love, was fun in so many ways. He liked himself, which is the secret of much in life!

It seems such an ordinary story, this handsome but otherwise unremarkable young couple settling down to a quietly happy marriage, looking forward to further children. Though they had no great prospects they were content with their lot in life. There was absolutely no indication that their children – there would be seven in all – would be so extraordinary that they would make the family a household name.

Think about what you love, Hildegard. Trust it. That's where your talents lie and that's where you'll find happiness, even here.

How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?

I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.

Elizabeth was not playing for the sake of exhibiting her virtuosity: she played for joy.

I smiled, knowing that Elizabeth, even in the worst of her humours, was far better suited to my own disposition. She would scold me, quarrel with me, torment me, tease me and laugh at me as often as may be. I was the happiest man in the world.

You do best at what you enjoy doing most. It's how you feel about yourself that counts most.

I dedided it was more important to laugh than eat. - Mary Todd after choosing Lincoln over a more wealthy suitor

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. R. W. EMERSON.

Whether any particular day shall bring to you more of happiness or of suffering is largely beyond your power to determine. Whether each day of your life shall give happiness or suffering rests with yourself. GEORGE S. MERRIAM.

Achaius and hope she could make him happy enough to refuse to go feuding.

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.