Quotes About Happiness

one were happy, then one might stay in with a book, say, and not go out hunting for fun.

Because happiness isn't made of fun. It's made of solid, real things. It's made of paychecks and clean clothing, and hot food and healthy children, and a man who can look you in the eye when he comes home because he has nothing to hide. It's not so rare. In fact, it's so common people don't notice it. They look for roses when they should be looking for indoor plumbing." Ma

Every day a sharp tool, a powerful destroyer, is necessary to cut away dullness, lobotomy, buzzing, belief in human beings, stagnancy, images, and accumulation. As soon as we stop believing in human beings, rather know we are dogs and trees, we'll start to be happy.

It was always easy to think that happiness and wisdom lay in the shadows, in places that have never yet been seen.

One joy, the Chinese believe, scatters a hundred griefs...

I have tried to live very quietly, so I could be happy.

It's important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that's all we have.

She told me the only way I would be happy on Milk Farm Road with my mother would be to turn off the radio. This would eliminate a great deal of temptation.

You've got to enjoy yourself. The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it. That's how I look at it. Ask anybody, they'll all tell you. The evening's the best part of the day.

Our life together's like a tale with a happy end, no matter what turns it took in the way.

Everything suddenly felt perfect: an hour set aside, stretching ahead of us, and there wasn't a better way to spend it. I had to really hold myself back from giggling stupidly, or jumping up and down on the pavement like a little kid.

I wish him the very best. All I'm saying is that there are all kinds of ways to lead a successful life.

But for another few minutes at least, we were safe, and we kept dancing under the starlit sky.

Quizá habríamos sido felices si las cosas hubieran continuado de este modo durante más tiempo; si hubiéramos podido disfrutar de más tardes charlando, practicando sexo, leyendo en voz alta y dibujando.

Era como si los tres volviéramos a estar unidos y no quisiéramos que nada pudiera ensombrecer nuestro estado de ánimo.

Sometimes,' She said, 'at special moments like that, people feel a pain alongside their happiness. I'm glad you watch everything so carefully, Klara'" (Ishiguro 23).

Sometimes,' She said, 'at special moments like that, people feel a pain alongside their happiness. I'm glad you watch everything so carefully, Klara

We must each of us ... be grateful for what we do have. ... You really musn't let any more foolish ideas come between yourself and the happiness you deserve.

What's wrong with selfishness and egotism? We live to die smiling, don't we?

Sunt un laÈ™, nu pot îndura suferinÈ›a de a fi fericit.

I scarcely remember counting upon happiness—I look not for it if it be not in the present hour—nothing startles me beyond the moment. The setting sun will always set me to rights, or if a sparrow come before my Window I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel.

Cooking is an art and patience a virtue... Careful shopping, fresh ingredients and an unhurried approach are nearly all you need. There is one more thing - love. Love for food and love for those you invite to your table. With a combination of these things you can be an artist - not perhaps in the representational style of a Dutch master, but rather more like Gauguin, the naïve, or Van Gogh, the impressionist. Plates or pictures of sunshine taste of happiness and love.

This is what I wanted. This guy. This life. This me. I was never getting my old life back, and I didn't care. I was happy. I was safe. I was right where I wanted to be.

All I could think about was him, and how much I wanted this, and how incredibly lucky I was to get it, and how tight I was going to hold onto it.