Quotes About Happiness

My goal in life is to make everyone else happy and when I'm happy I try to make them believe they're the cause of it

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

Az utolsó öröm éppen olyan édes, mint valaha régen az els? lehetett.

And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything, your slave, be strong! But they were words she could not say. The only thing she said when he released her from his embrace was, "You don't know how happy I am to be with you." That was the most her reserved nature allowed her to express.

And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.

The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

And then I realized there was no more shutting of your eyes to the truth, no salvation in being blindfolded, no dream and reality, no being awake or asleep. Everything is one and the same continuing eternal day and world, coiling around you like a snake. That is when I saw vast, remote happiness as being small but close; when I perceived the great cause as empty, and the small as my love...

I could see the bird soaring away. And then I realised there was no more shutting of your eyes to the truth,no salvation in being blindfolded, no dream and reality,no being awake or asleep. Everything is one and the same continuing eternal day and world, coiling around you like a snake. This is when I saw vast, remote happiness as being small but close.

Money can't buy you happiness, but it helps you look for it in a lot more places.

If I have learned anything as a mother, it's that your dreams are also your children's dreams. They need to know that your hopes and your dreams are achievable and not to be set aside. It's like they say: If mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.

What life is there, what delight, without golden Aphrodite?

For a woman, the man you marry will determine the quality of your life completely.

Ele amava a filha da mesma maneira que os pais dele o tinham amado, mas deu por si a não conseguir negar-lhe fosse o que fosse. Sunja era uma rapariga de aparência normal, com um riso fácil e uma boa disposição, mas aos olhos do pai ela era linda e ele maravilhava-se com a perfeição dela. Poucos pais no mundo valorizavam as filhas tanto como Hoonie, que parecia viver unicamente para a fazer sorrir.

He looked so happy, and it pleased her to see him like this. She could count on him to be a happy person.

For a woman, the man you marry will determine the quality of your life completely. A good man is a decent life, and a bad man is a cursed life

Some say that happy women are immaterial.

I would love to be married. But it's not a necessity like the way that I feel I need and want to have children. It would be wonderful to have a husband, and I would feel blessed to do it. But I would feel sad for the rest of my life if I had no kids.

the best kind of laughter is laughter born of a shared memory.

Maybe the point is that any marriage is work, but you may as well pick work that you like.

I'm not complaining about Romance Being Dead - I've just described a happy marriage as based on talking about plants and a canceled Ray Romano show and drinking milkshakes: not exactly rose petals and gazing into each other's eyes at the top of the Empire State Building or whatever. I'm pretty sure my parents have gazed into each other's eyes maybe once, and that was so my mom could put eyedrops in my dad's eyes.

In the Shakespearean comedies, the wedding is the end, and there isn't much indication of what happily ever after will look like day to day. In real life, shouldn't a wedding be an awesome party you throw with your great pal, in the presence of a bunch of your other friends? A great day, for sure, but not the beginning and certainly not the end of your friendship with a person you can't wait to talk about gardening with for the next forty years.