Quotes About Happiness

It follows, then, that you and I cannot really expect to glide through life, coolly air-conditioned, while naively petitioning: "Lord, give me experience but not grief, a deeper appreciation of happiness but not deeper sorrow, joy in comfort but not in pain, more capacity to overcome but not more opposition; and please do not let me ever feel perplexed while on thine errand. Then let me come quickly and dwell with thee and fully share thy joy.

Without the threat of suffering, we can't experience true joy.

The Highest Thought is always that thought which contains joy. The Clearest Words are those words which contain truth. The Grandest Feeling is that feeling which you call love.

If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment

Do what you do for the sheer joy of it, Do what you choose,not what someone else chooses for you.

Since I was a kid." "Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'" "Right.

My family shouldn't have to put up with me. They're good people, solid, happy. Sometimes when I'm with them I think I'm on television.

You know what I think prolongs life?" Harry has said. "Art and Music. Beyond that, it is to have a heart full of love, That is the most important thing".

The healthy individual has an appetite for fruitful activity and for a high quality of life. —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?

I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.

A prince may be seen happy today and ruined tomorrow without having shown any chance in his character. For the prince who relies entirely on fortune is lost when it changes...

They say that a few minutes each day of petting your dog can raise your serotonin levels.

Yeah, but satisfaction brought him back.

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

It's amazing how flabby you get when you're happy.

Most people seem to believe that if a relationship doesn't last until death, it's a failure. But the only relationship that's truly a failure is one that lasts longe than it should. The success of a relationship should be measured by it's depth, not by it's lenght.

I want to have money, so I don't have to spend my life chasing money.

It's cool to go places where working people are happy.

when the album was done I loved it. It was a mixture of electric and acoustic solo performances with dubs. I called it Le Noise, after Dan. It was a French Canadian joke, a very English was of saying Lanois. I was doing a show that introduced a lot of the songs, and things were going great. I was very happy.

Marriage was very simple. You married a person you liked, and did just as you liked, exactly as before; and the person adored you, and even if he lost his temper sometimes over a beefsteak, or a missing shirt, he was still the most charming person in the world.

For many people, depression is an abrupt change in an otherwise full and happy life. It emerges suddenly and devastates by its very strangeness and pathology.

But there was, she knew, something else. Happiness, she supposed. Whatever that might be. What, exactly, she wondered, was happiness. Very positively she wanted it.

And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty.