Quotes About Happiness

Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself. Maybe it wasn't the lack of achievements that had made her and her brother's parents unhappy, maybe it was the expectation to achieve in the first place.

And I felt an urge to tell someone how good it felt, in human form, to laugh. The release of it. And I wanted to tell someone about it

on earth, I realise, to make someone you care about laugh.

This is everything I wanted, so why am I not happy? So what was Schopenhauer's answer? Well, if wanting things was the problem, the answer had to be in giving things up. In his language, the cause of suffering is intensity of will.

It is the simplest, purest joy

The sky isn't more beautiful if you have perfect skin. Music doesn't sound more interesting if you have a six-pack. Dogs aren't better company if you're famous. Pizza tastes good regardless of your job title. The best of life exists beyond the things we are encouraged to crave.

A world full of people hating themselves is not a happy world.

it would have made things a lot easier if we understood there was no way of living that can immunise you against sadness. And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness. You can't have one without the other.

Una podía comer en los mejores restaurantes, tomar parte de todos los placeres sensuales, cantar en São Paulo ante veinte mil personas, recibir chaparrones de aplausos, viajar a los confines de la Tierra, tener millones de seguidores en las redes, ganar medallas olímpicas. Pero nada de esto cobraba sentido sin amor.

Laughter flapped out of people like bats from a cave.

sadness of the memories weighed more and lasted longer than the moments of happiness themselves.

If only we could find a way to stop time,' said her husband. 'That's what we need to work on. You know, for when a moment of happiness floats along. We could swing our net and catch it like a butterfly, and have that moment for ever.

And that gave her hope, and even the sheer sentimental gratitude of being able to be here, knowing she had the potential to enjoy watching radiant skies and mediocre Ryan Bailey comedies and be happy listening to music and conversation and the beat of her own heart.

If the modern world is making us feel bad, then it doesn't matter what else we have going for us, because feeling bad sucks. And feeling bad when we are told there is no reason to, well, that sucks even more.

Puedes tenerlo todo y no sentir nada».

Happiness is an accident of self-acceptance. It's the warm breeze you feel when you open the door to who you are.

For years now I had convinced myself that the sadness of the memories weighed more and lasted longer than the moments of happiness themselves.

The key to happiness is finding the lie that suits you best.

Hayat? anlaman gerekmiyor. Ya?aman yeterli.

In this life, she clearly had no taste. But since when did taste have anything to do with happiness.

La facultate, prietenii nostri ne-au considerat mereu un cuplu fericit. Si chiar eram. Mai putin in cealalta jumatate a timpului in care eram un cuplu nefericit.

I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It's like nature's Neosporin.

When your grateful for things or qualities you possess you're much more likely to create happiness in your life.

George sat on his porch, and drank his Coke and made daydreams out of the rain. He wondered about the book he would write this year, and he wondered - not too desperately - whether love would find him at last and let him rest for a time. But he smiled all the while he was thinking about it, because at the core he was happy enough just to be alive and watching the storm, and this one thing made him special.