Quotes About Happiness

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property were just what Aristotle did not talk about. They are the conditions of happiness; but the essence of happiness, according to Aristotle, is virtue. So the moderns decided to deal with the conditions and to let happiness take care of itself.

Happiness, for Rand, is not mere pleasure or desire-satisfaction. It is that state of "non-contradictory joy" (Atlas 1022) that is the concomitant of achieving what one has rationally identified as objectively good.

A minha felicidade ou infelicidade depende da utilidade ou inutilidade da presente existência.

Para sempre ou para nunca mais; ou tudo ou nada: Viveremos eternamente, ou tudo se aniquilará de vez? É uma tese, essa, que se impõe. Todo homem experimenta a necessidade de viver, de gozar, de amar e ser feliz.

cuántos tormentos se ahorra el que sabe contentarse con lo que tiene, que ve sin envidia lo que no tiene, que no pretende parecer más de lo que es! Siempre es rico, porque si mira hacia abajo en vez de mirar hacia arriba, siempre verá gentes que aun tienen menos; vive tranquilo, porque no se crea necesidades quiméricas, y la calma en medio de los huracanes de la vida ¿no es acaso una felicidad?

Cuando la ley de amor y de caridad sea la ley de la humanidad, ya no habrá egoísmo: el débil y el pacífico ya no serán explotados ni pisoteados por el fuerte y el violento. Tal será el estado de la Tierra cuando, según la ley del progreso y la promesa de Jesús, venga a ser un mundo feliz por la expulsión de los malos.

why do I make myself miserable over things that years from now no one will even care about? If I knew that, maybe I could be happy.

I have no idea what my great-grandparents looked or sounded like, or the great-greats before them, back to caveman days. It's weird to think they were like me once, goofing with friends, mad at their parents, brave, scared, everything. But now they're gone too, and nobody knows or cares. So why do I make myself miserable over things that years from now no one will even care about? If I knew that, maybe I could be happy.

You want coffees with your Happy Meals? Yes, we want coffee with our Happy Meals. It makes them more happy.

Smokers do not smoke because they enjoy it. They do it because they are miserable without it.

Quite simply, the key to being a happy non-smoker is to remove the desire to smoke. With no desire to smoke, it takes no Willpower not to do so.

I have only two kinds of days: happy and hysterically happy.

No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself.

While most of us know that we feel better after a good hearty laugh, science, in many cases, is yet to prove why.

Laughter is complete rapture vocalized.

Not unhappy is not the same thing as happy.

Happiness isn't the easiest thing to find, but one place you're guaranteed to find it is in a friend's smile.

Happiness is what you choose, what you follow, not what follows you. These are the things I have seen, these are the things I now know, these are the things I will carry with me as I go.

There is the before. And then there is the after. Happiness is what you choose, what you follow, not what follows you. These are the things I have seen, these are the things I now know, these are the things I will carry with me as I go.

life sometimes grants us second chances, and if they should fall upon you, if you should be lucky enough to be offered another chance at happiness, then you'd be a fool not to seize it.

I'm better at life with you in it.

No one really can have any idea if it's luck or happenstance or timing or fate or the universe or just smart choices that grant you a good life, a happy one. All we can do is decide to own our choices no matter what, to honor them and ourselves as best we can. That whatever is within our control (and there is plenty that is not) is ours. Mine. Responsibility. Conviction.

That was the opposite of regret, she decided. That was living.

Finding that one person out there in the big wide world who you choose to be with...well, that's something else entirely. Love is scary and magical and bittersweet and special and hard and wonderful and the best thing that can ever happen to you in life.