Quotes About Happiness

People are stupid. Why are they so stupid? There is an algorithm for the way humans were designed: love and be loved. Follow it and you're happy. Fight against it and you're not. It's so simple, it's hard to understand.

Good weather will do this to people, bond them in their gratefulness.

What if you determined to fin one thing every day that you -... I know. Count your blessings. Remind yourself every night of every good thing that happened to you that day. No. I'm not talking about things that happen to you. I'm talking about purposefully doing one thing that brings you happiness every single day, in a very conscious way. .......think of it more fluidly-as a philosophy that you exercise daily. And days turn into years. And then years turn into a lifetime.

I used to make a basket of my hands to hold a feeling of joy that came upon me, then flatten my hands against my chest as if to make it part of me. Not understanding that it already was.

Always be kind and comport yourself well, my child, for that will be your only happiness in life." "You mean that I will otherwise be unhappy?" "Yes," she said, "everyone has times of sorrow, but you will have more than most. And also you will have much to forgive." "But why?" "Because it will happen that you will have to forgive the only source of happiness you will know.

There is a lot of satisfaction, a lot of joy, that can come from doing something you love and that you're good at

luminous in their joy. There are photos of

we) laughed. It was so good to laugh. I felt as though I too were reentering my legitimate self.

just think that we need to collect these joy berries wherever we find them

hope you are rich in love, now and forever….

progress he'd made. Advance to Boardwalk. He couldn't help it; he started whistling.

You always say that love and happiness are not for sale , that what is on your back and on your plate is second to what is in your heart.

This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead.

she allows herself to use it in between loads of laundry so she'll be happy about doing the laundry.

There is an algorithm for the way humans were designed: love and be loved. Follow it and you're happy. Fight against it and you're not. It's so simple, it's hard to understand.

Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude. She had never landed at Cork, so this hill and that hill beyond were as unexpected as pictures at which you say Oh look! Nobody was beside her to share the moment, which would have been imperfect with anyone else there.

Portia was affected differently. She felt very quiet with happiness Oh, I just hope and pray, she said. And Mrs. Cheever walking lightly beside her, said: Well, I have a feeling, Portia, I have a feeling in my bones that your wish is going to come true. Do you, Aunt Minnehaha? Honestly? Cross your heart? I cross my heart, said Mrs. Cheever. Yes, indeed I do.

Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms.

A joyful person is one who deals daily with their problems, faithfully and obediently counting their trials as joy.

Joy is a sure sign of the presence of God in your life.

He encourages us to decide to have a joyful attitude. James' first rule for joyful living in unjoyful circumstances is to "count it all joy.

When you choose to work with a willing, happy heart, you become a beautiful source of joy to all.

The LORD has done it this very day; let us rejoice today and be glad.

God's recipe for a happy marriage, a recipe made up of four basic ingredients: help, submit, respect, and love?