Quotes About Happiness

But when you grab happiness you may let go of something more valuable --- your integrity. - Hugh Pilaster

He had realized that she was all the joy in his world. If the weather was fine, he wanted to walk in the sunshine with her; if he saw something beautiful, he wanted to show it to her; if he heard something funny, his first thought was to tell her, and see her smile. His work gave him pleasure, especially when he came up with clever solutions to intractable problems; but it was a cold, cerebral satisfaction, and he knew that his life would be a long winter without Caris.

I adore you' she said. 'When you go, I'll cry. But I'm not going to spoil today by being miserable about tomorrow

showing Carla and Erik with Father. It had been taken a couple of years ago on a sunny day at the beach

The fourth issue would go to the printer tomorrow. He was not so happy with this one: there was no big controversy. He put that out of his mind for the moment and

Renunciar a la felicidad es como arrojar piedras preciosas al océano. Es mucho peor que cualquier pecado.

Now, I call this nice. I got my daughter, my granddaughter, and my great-grandson, all in the same room. What more could a man ask of life?" He took a Welsh cake.

La moralidad de Tolstói. Hacer el bien tal vez no te haga feliz, pero hacer el mal seguro que te hará desgraciado. Ella

el hecho de sentirte amada y adorada; de saber que hay una persona en este mundo que siempre estará a tu lado; de irte a la cama cada noche con alguien fuerte y tierno que quiere poseerte… eso es la felicidad para mí.

into the Moscow earth, perhaps fifty years from now? 'Call no man happy until he is dead,' said the playwright Aeschylus: Dimka had heard that quote at university and always remembered it. Youthful promise could be blighted by later tragedy; suffering was often rewarded by wisdom.

To give up happiness like this is like throwing jewels into the ocean. It's far worse than any sin.

Volodya's happiness did not quite let him forget the horrors he had seen and the profound misgivings he had developed about Soviet Communism. The unspeakable brutality of the secret police, the blunders of Stalin that had cost millions of lives, and the propaganda that had encouraged the Red Army to behave like crazed beasts in Germany had all caused him to doubt the most fundamental things he had been brought up to believe. He

But the rest are even scared to open up and laugh. You know, that's the first thing that got me about this place, that there wasn't anybody laughing. I haven't heard a real laugh since I came through that door, do you know that? Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

I forget sometimes what laughter can do.

He's safe as long as he can laugh, he thinks, and it works pretty fair.

Néha el is felejtem, milyen csodákat tud tenni a nevetés.

Mõnikord ma unustan, milleks naer on võimeline.

Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9% of everything you think, And everything you do, Is for your self, And there isn't one.

Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don't get so worked up about things.

When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again.

Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.

Most power is lost in one's own mind by thinking negative thoughts, by worrying about the future, by focusing on the past, as opposed to thinking positive, strong, and happy thoughts.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna

I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.