Quotes About Happiness

They lifted their faces to the astonishing warmth. The sky arched over them, a pale, clear blue. Lina felt as though a lid that had been on her all her life had been lifted off. Light and air rushed though her, making a song, like the songs of Ember, only it was a song of joy. She looked at Doon and saw that he was smiling and crying at the same time, and she realized that she was, too.

To love someone," she said. "I can tell from your face that you love this man, and you loved your husband, too. What is it like?" "It is . . . wonderful," I replied. "It gives me a reason to wake up every morning. When he is happy, I am happy; when he is sad, I want only to cheer him. It is the best thing in life; nothing else comes close to it.

The secret to happiness in your work is to find a job in which your neurosis is constructive.

I was happy, and nothing in the world can make you oblivious to your surroundings like happiness.

Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.

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There is no life without regrets. Every important choice has its benefits and its deficits, whether or not people admit it or even recognize the fact: no mother has the radical, lifelong freedom that is essential for my happiness. I will never know the intimacy with, or have the impact on, a child that a mother has. Losses, including the loss of future possibilities, are inevitable in life; nobody has it all.

When you laugh and play, your body is calmed and energized by the release of natural opiates—endorphins that relax you physically and lift you up the ladder emotionally.

By protecting your nervous system and keeping you focused, laughter and play offer you opportunities to thrive even in inhospitable environments.

Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being. (109)

I have a tickle in my brain. And it keeps making the corners of my mouth point toward the heavens.

Middle age is such a low point for well-being; it's at the bottom of a U-shaped curve that shows greater happiness among the younger and older people.

Jane Roberts said that miracles are nature unimpeded, which is a good way of saying that if you take your hand off the tiller, the boat will steer itself and do a vastly better job of it than you ever could. Julie seems to have that ability to relax into the moment and let the universe do the driving. If there was a secret to happiness in life, I'd say that was it.

The ways of happiness and meaning are not the same. To find happiness, a man need only live in the moment; he need only live for the moment. But if he wants meaning—the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life—a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain. Thus nature dangles happiness and meaning before us all, insisting only that we choose between them.

There is no mystery to happiness. Unhappy men are all alike. Some wound they suffered long ago, some wish denied, some blow to pride, some kindling spark of love put out by scorn -- or worse, indifference -- cleaves to them, or they to it, and so they live each day within a shroud of yesterdays. The happy man dies not look back. He doesn't look ahead. He lives in the present.

If money doesn't make you happy, then you probably aren't spending it right.

3. Buy many small pleasures instead of few big ones

how you spend your money has a strong influence on how happy — or unhappy — it will make you. And, again, there's science behind this.

Despite popular assertions to the contrary, science tells us that money can buy happiness. To a point.

1. Buy experiences instead of things

Always maintain a joyful mind. Appreciate the struggles as opportunities to wake up.

There's no time for hatred, only questions. Where is love? Where is happiness? What is life? Where is peace?

Never frown. You never know who is falling in love with your smile

Find something in life that you love doing. If you make a lot of money, that's a bonus, and if you don't, you still won't hate going to work.