Quotes About Happiness

Almost Kien was tempted to believe in happiness, that contemptible life-goal of illiterates. If it came of itself, without being hunted for, if you did not hold it fast by force and treated it with a certain condescension, it was permissible to endure its presence for a few days.

I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake.

He struggles to understand why fate has spared him and not so many others. Was it to know happiness? His happiness will never be complete. To know love? He will never be sure of being worthy of love. A part of him is still back there, on the other side, where the dead deny the living the right to leave them behind. His recovery will be a road into exile, a journey in which the touch of the woman he loves will matter less than the image of his grandmother buried under a mountain of ashes.

It's a laugh that comes from beyond happiness and sadness. From beyond faith and anger. It's a laugh that only the dead can appreciate.

I have a son your age," he began, "but he's not at all like you. He's fair-haired, strong, and healthy. He likes to eat, drink, go to the pictures, laugh, sing, and go out with the girls. He has none of your anxiety, your unhappiness.

He brought it about that a people should attain happiness through tears, that the freedom of a nation, like that of a man, should be a monument built upon a pile, a foundation of dead bodies…

Some people don't like being happy. They're much more comfortable when they have a problem.

Perfect happiness existed, but perhaps only in small increments.

And maybe, just maybe, this summer will end up being one that people write songs about.

What I think is that every family is happy in their own fashion, and every family is unhappy in their own fashion. Every family is both functional and dysfunctional.

Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin

I have to tell you how nice that sound is. I haven't heard laughter in weeks.

The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-abandonment. 'If a man will let himself be lost for My sake,' Jesus said, 'he will find his true self.

There is a whole world of difference between those who look only for their own happiness in this world and those who know their true happiness lies in the will of God.

Ele nos diz o que devemos fazer e nós encontramos nossa felicidade em fazê-lo. Não encontraremos a felicidade em nenhum outro lugar. Não a encontraremos fazendo apenas o que queremos fazer e não fazendo o que não queremos fazer. Essa é a ideia popular do que é a liberdade, mas isso não funciona. A liberdade reside no cumprimento das regras. A alegria também está lá.

If God loves me, He´ll make me happy". Well, yes and no. Happy isn´t the word, really. It´s joy, a far better thing. Not a sentiment, not mere "feeling good", but something that can never be taken away.

Even when you are happy to see your friends again and laugh at their jokes, the relief is mixed with sadness and, maybe, guilt. It

Lo principal que hacía era escucharlos, pero también los animaba a «ver» que todavía les era posible llevar vidas plenas, productivas y felices. La vida es un reto, no una tragedia.

Why should I focus all my time on being productive so that someday I can enjoy my life? I'm enjoying it now.

It is very important that you do only what you love to do. You may be poor, you may go hungry, you may live in a shabby place, but you will totally live. And at the end of your days, you will bless your life because you have done what you came here to do.

For let not the unhappy wretch, who forgets his duties towards God and man, who gives himself up to the indulgence of his passions, and wrongs the innocent, think, if he escapes detection, he can be happy: alas! remorse and sorrow will one day assail him; he will find he cannot hide his crimes from himself, and his own conscience will prove his bitterest punishment.

People make one happy, not houses.

What we call Life is a condition of the soul. And the soul must improve in happiness and wisdom, except by its own fault. These tears in our eyes, these faintings of the flesh, will not hinder such improvement.

For all it's problems and difficulties, life is mostly a wonderful experience, and it is up to each person to make the most of each day. I hope you are successful in your life, but look to the heavens and the earth and especially to other people to find your real wealth. Wherever I am, wherever you go, know that my love goes with you.