Quotes About Happiness

each gratification points to the ultimate one, and that all happiness has some connection with eternal beatitude. Some connection, if only this: that every fulfillment this side of Heaven instantly reveals its inadequacy. It is immediately evident that such satisfactions are not enough; they are not what we have really sought; they cannot really satisfy us at all.

Man is not happy by virtue of his being. Rather, his whole existence is determined precisely by the non possession of ultimate gratification.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, in the enjoyment of one's self, and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

A smell is, after all, a violation of oxygen balance, an invasion into it of other elements--methane? carbon? sulphur? nitrogen? Depending on that invasion's intensity, you get a scent, a smell, a stench. It is a molecular affair, and happiness, I suppose, is the moment of spotting the elements of your own composition being free. There were quite a number of them out there, in a state of total freedom, and I felt I'd stepped into my own self-portrait in the cold air.

Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.

The way to find out about happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you are really happy — not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what is called following your bliss.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. If you are following your bliss you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid; the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.

Wherever you are—if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.

Follow your bliss.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Forgiveness is the key to happiness.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

Turn around, Piglet. Step lightly, Pooh. This silly ol' dance is perfect for two.

We didn't know we were making memories, we were just having fun

The more - the merrier.

Je hoeft je heus niet te verontschuldigen voor Vrolijkheid en Blijheid enzo. Die dingen komen nu eenmaal voor. Sombere raad van Iejoor

Blue, life is full of horrible things. One must find something that makes one happy and stick to it.