Quotes About Happiness

Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

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Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it

He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.

And then some days you wake up and everything's perfect.

And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others.

Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.

Happy people are those who use a lower threshold in order to label an event positive.

Getting what you go after is success. Liking it while getting there is happiness.

Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.

In the words of the Scottish proverb, 'Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Get rid of sad dogs who spread gloom.

Where people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work.

My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing.

These should be the happiest days, weeks and months of your life, but behind the scenes, upstairs and down, there is always doubt, always fear and always trouble-

Letting go is like the sudden cessation of an inner pressure or the dropping of a weight. It is accompanied by a sudden feeling of relief and lightness, with an increased happiness and freedom. It is an actual mechanism of the mind, and everyone has experienced it on occasion.

Love me and the world is mine.

Time seemed to fly-- as happens, they say, when you are having fun. I guess sometimes clichés were actually coined for legitimate reasons.

May your cortisol levels stay low, your dopamine levels high, your oxytocin run thick and rich, your serotonin build to a lovely plateau, and your ability to watch your brain at work keep you fascinated until your last breath. I wish you well on your journey.

There's a famous finding in the psychological literature," Ochsner explains, "showing that six months later, someone who has become a paraplegic is just as happy as someone who's won the lottery. It seems clear people are doing something to find what's positive in even the most dire of circumstances. The one thing you can always do is control your interpretation of the meaning of the situation

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

As Lucy says, "Winning isn't everything; winning big is!" Most of us need to win big. The problem, however, is that there seems to be a law of diminishing returns: the bigger wins give a decreasing measure of satisfaction.

The only thing better than taking a walk, just Tara and me, is taking a walk, Tara, Laurie, and me. They are my two loves, and living under the same roof as them, and sharing walks with them, make every day the best one of my life. The only obvious exceptions to that are the two days that the Giants beat the Patriots in the Super Bowls.

Even the pleasant things in life are grasped after with an unwarranted desire which overestimates the pleasure they will give, and is accompanied by a constant fear of their loss.