Quotes About Happiness

My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.

I feel this evening that I am too hopelessly and happily corrupted by the richness of London life to ever be right for Dorset, or vice-versa.

I can't make myself be happy but I can always make myself not be miserable. - Dr. Lou Welcome

One gets the impression that when this house is full there's probably nothing here but love and a hell of a racket.

No, if you squinted a little bit, maybe what seemed like wasted time was, in fact, true happiness.

In sum, the Bible teaches that God's law does not stand in the way of our happiness—it seeks to make it possible.

It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.

you don't stop laughing when you grown old, you grow old when you stop laughing.

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

triggers the release of endorphins, which are the neurochemicals that relieve pain.

We get given our faces, thinks Audie, but we inherit our lives, our happiness and our unhappiness. Some get a lot, some get a little. Some savor every morsel and suck the marrow out of every bone. We take pleasure in the sound of rain, the smell of cut grass, the smiles of strangers, the feeling of dawn on a hot day. We learn things and realize we can never know more than we don't know. We catch love like a cold and cling to it like wreckage in a storm.

is so strange, this life we lead. We search for happiness, but so much is about survival. Existence. We try to manage expectations, but really we're treading water, wasting time, or contemplating lives we might have led. Pretty soon we're like every other godless, money-hungry, backstabbing, jaded, jealous human being, wishing we were richer, prettier, younger, luckier, or could do it all over again.

I thought I knew everything about friendship and family: the happiness, simplicity and joy within them. But there is another side of devotion, a side which Samira understands.

At the end of this lifetime, all the "stuff" you accrue is not going to make you happy. At the end of your life, all you're going to have is who you've become as an individual, and that is what matters the most. What are you leaving behind for the next generation to build upon? Did you set up your family? Did you accomplish everything you wanted during your journey? And did it make you happy? But

We had little or no emotion. We lacked the capacity to feel fear, to experience love, to enjoy the sensations of happiness and delight.The finest warriors are not only those who do not fear, but those who are without anger.

researchers have conducted more than a hundred studies that explore music's ability to evoke in the listener the five "basic" emotions—happiness, sadness, anger, fear, and love/tenderness, which appear in musical scores as, respectively, festoso, dolente, furioso, timoroso, and teneramente—or the hundreds of subsets of those emotions.

Life can be a painful struggle and filled with mysteries, so whatever one needs to do to get through the day to find happiness and to bring some resolution to those nagging mysteries Ã¢â'¬Â¦ well Ã¢â'¬Â¦ who am I to argue? As declared in Psalms 46:1: "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

The goal of the practice is not happiness... the goal of the practice is freedom.

Even though I'm not with their mother, it's important for my kids to see adults in a committed and happy relationship. They need to see a strong relationship. You don't have to settle.

and he was young and joyful and in love and his sweetie was here with him, and she loved him, too. All the world was theirs and bright with possibility. So it couldn't last. Who the fuck cared?

Most of us live in a state of perpetual "could be better." We're so used to having control over every little parameter of our lives that we cannot focus on what's going right, only on what's going wrong. That's the viewpoint we always seem to be coming from, and it means that we are perpetually unsatisfied, unhappy, disappointed, and ungrateful.

If they had a pill that would fix every dysfunctional family in the world, don't you think they'd be selling it?" "I don't think the world is ready for that kind of happiness.

One of the best T-shirts I ever saw,said: i was happy once,but i'm better now.

The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations.