Quotes About Happiness

It seemed to me happiness exquisite enough only to stretch my limbs in peace on the cool moss; only to pass the whole blithe day without one voice raised in anger at me; only just to be fed, and to be clean, and to be left quite free. The passion for freedom is intense in dogs.

Life is good, if you like that sort of thing.

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

Happy the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying, once and for all.

In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone.

When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

Five kids in one lifetime ain't bad – and I love them all so much. They're the best things that ever happened to me, no question about it.

Their eyelashes were moist, and small drops of sweat beaded their upper lips. I regarded their slumber, almost innocent in its foolish thoughtlessness and its oblivion of all danger and the outside world. Is this what human beings call happiness?

His was a life which lacked, perhaps, the sublimer emotions which raised Man to the level of the gods, but it was undeniably an extremely happy one. He never experienced the thrill of ambition fulfilled, but, on the other hand, he never knew the agony of ambition frustrated....

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

It's a party. A big Dog Party.

As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.

True happiness isn't enhanced by pleasure or diminished by sadness, but exists in spite of those things.

THERE IS NO JOY EXCEPT IN HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS' — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (p.16).

Re: Positive reactions to non-positive events] Our feelings are the products of our thoughts. A positive thought produces a feeling of contentment or happiness, a negative one a feeling of sadness or despondency. If we have control over how we feel about it as well. This means, in turn, that we can be the makers of our own happiness ( p.16).

I am convinced that, to a significant extent, life is what our relationships make it. …To learn how to be happy we must learn how to live well with others, and civility is a key to that (p. 6).

The Noblest of Arts is Making Others Happy

The noblest art is that of making others happy

The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.

El arte más noble, es la de hacer felices a los demás

The inordinate love of money, no doubt, may be and is the root of all evil, but money itself, when properly used, is not only a handy thing to have in the house, but affords the gratification of blessing our race by enabling its possessor to enlarge the scope of human happiness and human influence.

Not yet. I don't know what I'm so happy about. But it doesn't matter whether Ma agrees or not. I can make my own decisions. I'm a person, the same as the rest of you.

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived in him.