Quotes About Happiness

The constant pursuit of material possessions/money status or sexual relationships, and so on, can be problematic.

This materialistic and competitive striving and needing 'to have and own' has been linked to deteriorating mental health, especially in young people.16

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

Don't ignore your dreams; don't work too much; say what you think; cultivate friendships; be happy.

Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy.

Human beings are built for connection — it's wired into the depths of our being, It's also complicated and multi-dimensional. This is why we're the healthiest and happiest when we're connected to a group of people rather then depending on a single person for all of our emotional and physical needs

When a person reaches a certain age, there are many things he or she can feign: happiness is not one of them -- Jorge Luis Borges

A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double; And that is life! A crust and a corner that love makes precious, With a smile to warm and the tears to refresh us; And joy seems sweeter when cares come after, And a moan is the finest of foils for laughter; And that is life!

Beatles. "All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.

So what's your definition?" "Two people who just have to be together," he replied without hesitation. "Two people who are not complete when they're apart. They're lovers and best friends, too. There's lust and laughter, and they can't imagine being with anyone else." "So Steve Solomon believes in romantic love?

12. When a man and woman are in total sync—thinking each other's thoughts, making each other laugh, bringing each other joy—they've hit the sweet spot, and just being together is better than . . . almost as good as sex.

You're crackers." "Marvelous isn't it? I find it's the only way to be.

I still believe that love is all you need. I don't know a better message than that.

When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!

Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.

And what's the point of changing when I'm happy as I am?

When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won.

Wouldn't you like right now to last forever?' Roger said as we lolled on the picnic slope. The afterglow of it lasted for days, for we bragged about it as if we'd just ascended K-2.

If later on, as we read this, we might think "How happy we were then!" at least we'll have that. That as we lived them, these moments, we knew they were important, and that's all there is.

Good days are such a mysterious gift that you dare not question them much, and the only problem is they give you a false sense of security.

Why should my happiness depend on the thoughts going on in someone else's head?

Less frequently discussed is how many of us are chronically unhappy because we don't come up to the expectations of our children, many of whom delight in showing us their disapproval.

Seeing the smile in your eyes, I have forgotten that people die

Wherever satisfaction is found, in whatever act, actualize this.