Quotes About Happiness

With my mother's death," Lewis wrote, "all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures, many stabs of Joy; but no more of the old security.

How wonderful that it's possible to ensure our own happiness of another. Is it our job to make a beloved happy? It is not. The other person always has a choice. It is our job to generously outdo, no matter what, and discover that the prize in this contest of generosity is more love.

He had laughed today; he had been happy. He didn't know why he had not counted more sunny hours in his life, but he hadn't. God had clearly asked him to, but he was intent on having his own nature, and his own nature could be inward, even melancholy. He didn't like it, but here it was.

There are two things to aim at in life,' " he quoted from Logan Pearsall Smith. " 'First, to get what you want, and after that, to enjoy it.

In effect, a good marriage happens when the happiness of the other is essential to your own happiness. We might say that a good marriage is a contest of generosities.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions—the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feelings.' Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In Ephesians 5:28, we're told that he who loved his wife loves himself. In effect, a good marriage happens when the happiness of the other is essential to your own happiness. We might say that a good marriage is a contest of generosities. 'How wonderful that it's possible to ensure our own happiness by seeking the happiness of another.

If his wife was happy and his boy was happy, he was happy.

Love is an actual need, an urgent requirement of the heart," he read aloud from an old essay on marriage that he found in his files. "Every properly constituted human being who entertains an appreciation of loneliness...and looks forward to happiness and content feels the necessity of loving. Without it, life is unfinished...

Find what brings you joy and go there.

The ultimate resolution to the search for happiness is spiritual.

Not that she didn't enjoy the holidays: but she always felt—and it was, perhaps, the measure of her peculiar happiness—a little relieved when they were over. Her normal life pleased her so well that she was half afraid to step out of its frame in case one day she should find herself unable to get back.

I felt a sense of pride swell in me. Not for myself but for these two women. They were everything I wanted to be someday—successful, happy, dedicated to their town and its people, and most importantly they knew who they were.

I don't doubt that at some point I'll be as happy as I was before, but I don't think I'll ever be the same, if that makes sense.

She had no idea how long these moments of pure unadulterated glee would last, but she was going to enjoy the hell out of it as long as she could.

There is something very significant about Jane Austen's own reservation in her letter about the Evangelicals. She was "at least persuaded that they who are so from reason and feeling, must be happiest and safest". It leaves one wondering just what her own reason and feeling were telling her. We have no idea. In this passage, she sounds curiously like someone of our own times saying how much they would like to believe in God, if only they could.

If you are in search of happiness, make sure that your journey is free from things that get you caught up in the past. If your path is blocked by stuff that makes you remember things that do not help you move on, then it is about time to let go.

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.

Why not seize pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged: no harm can be done.

Next week I shall begin my operations on my hat, on which you know my principal hopes of happiness depend.

Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honorable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.