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Quotes About Happiness

All days are happy...if you let them be.
~ Elizabeth Webster
I sit there in my bed staring at the wall, feeling happy, enjoying the way the wall looks, how pink and how white it is. Pink and white, as far as I'm concerned, have never looked quite so pink and white before.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
After they had explored all the suns in the universe, and all the planets of all the suns, they realized there was no other life in the universe, and that they were alone. And they were very happy, because then they knew it was up to them to become all the things they had imagined they would find.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
Happiness is a choice, you've got to work towards it
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
Tolstoy is frequently quoted as saying something about how all happy families are the same. but unhappy families are all unhappy in different ways. Of course he's got it totally wrong, completely ass-backward. Happiness is infinite in its variety, and happy people, happy families, can find their joy in so many different ways.... And all the unhappy families are all pretty much the same. All types of misery are identical at the core...
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
I kept imagining the end, the despair I would suffer when it came, and it made any happiness I had in the present seem not merely ephemeral, but doomed. Because the happier I allowed myself to be now, the more miserable I would be later.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
People who have no choice are generally unhappy. But people with too many choices are almost as unhappy as those who have no choice at all.
~ Ellen Ullman
Someone was waving a large pink-and-white sign that read, Don't Worry, Be Happy. I was trying, and so were at least thirty thousand other bodies, with varying degrees of post-Aquarian patience, to see the Who for the first time in a year.
~ Ellen Willis
Cadfael hastened towards his workshop with a lightened heart, having shifted his worries to broader shoulders
~ Ellis Peters
There was, after all, a great deal of human happiness in the world, even a world so torn and mangled with conflict, cruelty and greed. So it had always been, and always would be. And so be it, provided the indomitable spark of joy never went out.
~ Ellis Peters
And yet they had adjusted with surprisingly little trouble to their new life, and most of them were quite sincerely happy. The adaptability of the human creature is such that they actually had to remind themselves on occasion of their desperate circumstances.
~ Alfred Lansing
Ring out the old, ring in the new,Ring, happy bells, across the snow:The year is going, let him go;Ring out the false, ring in the true.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear;Tomorrow 'ill be the happiest time of all the glad New Year;Of all the glad New Year, mother, the maddest, merriest day;For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
~ Alfred Mercier
In my preface, I quoted an e-mail message from someone who was upset by the news that neuroscientists had shown that free will is an illusion. She was, she said, "in a lot of despair." My final moral is the title of a song: "Don't Worry, Be Happy." Scientists have not shown this. Nor has anyone shown that there are no effective intentions. This is good news for just about everyone.
~ Alfred R. Mele
Laughter is the orgasm of the face".
~ Alfredo Arias
A cada uno su pena, pero a todos la alegria
~ Alfredo Bryce Echenique
An explanation of some kind was an absolute necessity, just as some working explanation of the universe is necessary—however absurd—to the happiness of every individual who seeks to do his duty in the world and face the problems of life.
~ Algernon Blackwood
Contentment is the capital which will never diminish.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
If you cannot get things as much as you desire than be contented with what you have.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.
~ Ali ibn-Abi-Talib
I work on a TV show I love, I have the opportunity to do movies with actors I respect, and I'm in love with the man I want to spend the rest of my life with, who pushes me and excites me.
~ Ali Larter