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Quotes About Happiness

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.
~ Alfred Adler
If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.
~ Alfred Bester
So, go on rising, sun, you don't frighten us. We don't care about your many miles, your diameter, your volume. Warm sun, just rise, bright light, arise. You are not big, you are not small, you are happiness.
~ Alfred Doblin
Drink, little brother, drink, leave your worries at home, feel no trouble, feel no pain, life is a jolly refrain, feel no trouble and feel no pain, life is a jolly refrain.
~ Alfred Doblin
I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.
~ Alfred Day Hershey
A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.
~ Alfred de Musset
Comment l'homme est-il assez insensé pour quitter cette vie tant qu'il n'a pas épuisé toutes ses chances de bonheur ? Celui qui perd sa fortune au jeu quitte-t-il le tapis tant qu'il lui reste une pièce d'or ? Une seule pièce peut lui rendre tout.
~ Alfred de Musset
There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
~ Alfred de Musset
Hast thou found out, Voltaire, that it is bliss to die, And does thy hideous smile over thy bleached bones fly?
~ Alfred de Musset
un homme de vingt ans peut avoir plus vécu qu'une femme de trente. La liberté dont les hommes jouissent les mène bien plus vite au fond de toutes choses ; ils courent sans entraves vers tout ce qui les attire ; ils essayent de tout. Dès qu'ils espèrent, ils se mettent en marche, ils vont, ils s'empressent. Arrivés au but, ils se retournent ; l'espérance est restée en route, et le bonheur a manqué de parole. »
~ Alfred de Musset
Qu'importe le flacon, pourvu qu'on ait l'ivresse ?
~ Alfred de Musset
J'aime, et je sais répondre avec indifférence ; J'aime, et rien ne le dit ; j'aime, et seul je le sais ; Et mon secret m'est cher, et chère ma souffrance ; Et j'ai fait le serment d'aimer sans espérance, Mais non pas sans bonheur ; – je vous vois, c'est assez.
~ Alfred de Musset
Io non conto i giorni - diceva - ma i piaceri".
~ Alfred de Musset
BIRGing, which stands for basking in reflected glory.
~ Alfred Ells
What makes a good life?" According to Waldinger, the Harvard research project shows that "good relationships keep us happier and healthier.
~ Alfred Ells
I really think that people's right to happiness shouldn't be dictated by some policymaker in Washington, D.C. I've come to know a lot of people that - sexual orientation is such where they're in love with people from the same sex, and I just don't think it's our role in the government to say, 'No you can't be married.'
~ Jon Tester
Washington State is great. I'm completely happy at Washington State.
~ Mike Leach
Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can't let our circumstances or what others do or don't do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.
~ Joyce Meyer
I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy.
~ Marat Safin
My world is better. Why would I want to waste my time playing golf? I can get up in the morning and be in this whole other world. I love my life.
~ Janet Evanovich
You can take it for granted that I am not going to waste any time thinking about giving up how happy I am at Borussia, in the city of Dortmund, and with this team.
~ Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
We spend so much of our lives doing math problems on how to feel good. It's such a waste of time. You're going to feel how you feel. It's hard to just set up a way that you're going to live your life that is going to be just endlessly happy and healthy. That's impossible.
~ Brett Gelman
I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy.
~ Jessica Lange
I have tried so many fad diets, I've wasted so much time looking for a solution when it was right in front of me all along - take care of yourself, nourish your body, surround yourself with good people - you will feel good and will shine in all that you do.
~ Cheryl Burke