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Quotes About Happiness

mean that if you spend your time putting the love of your heart into what you do for those who are not your friends, you may often be disappointed and discouraged. But if you keep on trying you will find your happiness in loving, whether you are loved back or not.
~ Unknown
I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brother thing.
~ Patricia Velasquez
I vowed to myself to do everything possible to help my parents be happy, and I prayed they would work at it, too. I knew I wanted to provide them with every bit of support I could without taking away their own legs to stand on.
~ Unknown
Rancid was poor. He didn't seem to know that he was poor, however, and I never had the heart to tell him, because he was the happiest person I'd ever met. If he had known he was poor, of course, then he would have been sad and miserable all the time. As it was, Rancid was able to live out his whole life in blissful ignorance of the fact that he was poor.
~ Unknown
He was pleasantly hysterical like a young girl at a wedding.
~ Patrick Kavanagh
Dahmer was pathetic and incredibly selfish as he began the process of trying to find sexual pleasure and companionate happiness with another man, only to discover that what he really wanted was a completely incapacitated and compliant sexual partner who fit the very specific body type that he deemed perfect.
~ Unknown
Studies have shown that simply smiling and acting happy and positive can literally change moods.
~ Unknown
What would you do if you had a six-month sabbatical from any type of work? When are you at your happiest? If someone were to introduce you at a party, how would you like to be introduced? In other words, you are "the _____ guy or girl." Fill in the blank. What have you done purely because of other people's pressure? What have you done because of some external pressure? What motivates you, and why?
~ Unknown
I'd rather be happy than be right." Probably
~ Unknown
If a person adapts to the changes in life easily, that person will be happy;
~ Unknown
pleasure you want. Use
~ Unknown
The word satisfice is a combination of the words satisfy and suffice. It's a term that Herbert Simon coined in the 1950s, and it represents what we should shoot for rather than something that is guaranteed to optimize and maximize our happiness.
~ Unknown
Ultimately, it's your choice whether or not to be positive. You can proactively control how happy and positive you feel, or you can be passive and let other people and factors determine what happens to you. Emotions
~ Unknown
When people subconsciously begin to associate you with positive moods and emotions, you are going to be the bell that makes people smile without realizing why.
~ Unknown
Larry: She doesn't want to be happy. Dan: Everybody wants to be happy. Larry: Depressives don't. They want to be unhappy to confirm they're depressed. If they were happy they couldn't be depressed anymore. They'd have to go out into the world and live. Which can be depressing.
~ Patrick Marber
When I am at my work each day In the fields so fresh and green I often think of riches and the way things might have been But believe me when I tell you when I get home each day I'm as happy as a sandboy with my wee cup of tay
~ Unknown
All of a sudden I looked at him with his rosy cheeks and the two silver snots at his nose and what did I want to do I wanted to kiss him. Not the way Tiddly did it any of that but just because all of a sudden everything seemed so good. I said to myself: Just being here is so good I could stand here for ever.
~ Unknown
I was happy when I walked the streets of Paris by myself.
~ Patrick Modiano
In those days, I thought I was happy.
~ Patrick Modiano
Y si la felicidad consistía en esa embriaguez pasajera que experimentaba aquella tarde, entonces, por primera vez en mi vida, era feliz
~ Patrick Modiano
Yvonne se estaba acercando a nuestra mesa con un fular de muselina verde alrededor del cuello. Me sonreía y no apartaba la vista de mí. Algo se me dilataba del lado izquierdo del pecho y decidí que aquel día era el más hermoso de mi vida.
~ Patrick Modiano
molto tempo dopo, qualcuno mi ha assicurato che l'unica cosa impossibile da ricordare è il timbro delle voci. Eppure, ancora oggi, durante le mie notti insonni, sento spesso la voce dall'accento parigino - quello delle strade in salita- dirmi:"Allora, la sta trovando la sua felicità?". Una frase che conserva ancora oggi tutta la sua gentilezza e il suo mistero.
~ Patrick Modiano
Not everyone has to be the Chosen One. Not everyone has to be the guy who saves the world. Most people just have to live their lives the best they can, doing things that are great for them , having great friends, trying to make their lives better, loving people properly. All the while knowing that the world makes no sense but trying to find a way to be happy anyway.
~ Patrick Ness
And it feels like, finally.
~ Patrick Ness