Quotes About Happiness

EARLY ONE DARK April morning a few years ago I was sitting in my living room in central Copenhagen, wrapped in a blanket and yearning for spring, when I opened that day's newspaper to discover that my adopted countrymen had been anointed the happiest of their species in something called the Satisfaction with Life Index, compiled by the Department of Psychology at the University of Leicester. I checked the date on the newspaper: it wasn't 1 April.

If you want to be happy you have to work to make it happen. You can't just wish for it and you can't put it in the hands of other people.

How to Get the Love You Want.

Roscoe's dead. I loved him, but he's gone now. Besides, if I was the one who croaked, I'd want him to be happy.

I do like to laugh. I remember Roger Moore, years ago, saying to me "Cheer up. You'd better have a good time because this is not a rehearsal, this is life. This is the show.

If he doesn't give you the same feelings you get when the pizza guy arrives, he's probably not worth it.

It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.

I remember one morning getting up at dawn. There was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling. And I... I remember thinking to myself: So this is the beginning of happiness, this is where it starts. And of course there will always be more...never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment, right then.

I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.

Who can refuse the hand of the All Powerful One who abases Himself to the most unworthy of His creatures? How happy I am, my dear sister! I have been captured in the loving nets of the divine Fisherman. I would like to make you understand this happiness.

The heavenly inhabitants are all blissfully joyful and will remain so eternally because they have the assurance that nothing will ever interfere with or separate them from their union with God, who is the source or fountain of love, joy and happiness.

Happy Christmas" was their version of "Merry Christmas," and a better version, it seemed to him, for making merry was different from making happiness.

She'd have the two of them eating out of her shoe. I've watched her in action, but I could never get away with it. And, I console myself, being cute hasn't made her all that happy.

There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.

There were thousands and thousands of forms of joy in the world, but that all were essentially one and the same, namely, the joy of being able to love.

Four studies, all reported in the last five years, have found what many suspected all along: that a positive attitude makes a large difference in how long and how well you live.

Such a display of beauty and happiness is not possible without contentment,

Suffering is such a deep part of living," wrote Robert Kull, who lived alone on an island in Patagonia for a year, in 2001, "that if we try too hard to avoid it, we end up avoiding life entirely." The Tao Te Ching says that "happiness rests in misery.

Stupidity, selfishness and good health are the three prerequisites of happiness, though if stupidity is lacking the others are useless.

Stupidity, selfishness and good health are the three prerequisites of happiness, though if stupidity is lacking the others are useless.'7

teems of times and happy returns. The same anew'.

Happy is the man whose wants are few. The fewer the wants, the happier the person. One

Here's to creating a life you love

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