Quotes About Happiness

It is nothing to the green-finches; all their thoughts are in their song-talk. The sunny moment is to them all in all. So deeply are they rapt in it that they do not know whether it is a moment or a year. There is no clock for feeling, for joy, for love

Once you have adjusted to a higher standard of living, it may give you little or no extra happiness.

There are proven techniques for exiting feelings of incipient sadness and depression before they become damaging to your health and happiness. Moreover, by cultivating habits of optimism you can help to prevent disease as well as have a happier life.

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

Not only is happiness not money, it is not even like money.

We can change the way that we think about external events, even where we cannot change them. And we can do something more. We can intelligently change our exposure to events that make us either happy or unhappy.

You might get much better value and happiness out of a simpler and cheaper lifestyle.

All the time we tell ourselves stories about ourselves. We have to: there is no objective truth. You might as well choose positive rather than negative stories. By doing so you will increase the sum of human happiness, starting with yourself and radiating out to others.

When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.

Everywhere was singing, all over the house was singing, and outside the house was alive with singing, and the very air was song.

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

What people need to accept is that it is there responsibility to communicate what they need and what they feel, and to realize that they cannot expect someone else magically to make them happy. People want to be made happy, instead of making themselves happy

I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.

That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed.

A dolphin's smile is the greatest deception. It creates the illusion that they're always happy.

We confuse depression, sadness, and grief. However, the opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality — the ability to experience a full range of emotions, including happiness, excitement, sadness, and grief.2 Depression is not an emotion itself; it's the loss of feelings, a big heavy blanket that insulates you from the world yet hurts at the same time. It's not sadness or grief, it's an illness.

A study of the brain using new technology showed that the thinking areas practically shut down when people were made to listen to information that contradicted their political beliefs. Conversely, when they heard information that tended to confirm their beliefs, the happiness centers of the brain lit up.

The hedonic treadmill says that no matter how much you have right now, you will want more, and when you get more, you will want more still—unless you're wise enough to save your money for some of the things that do lead to happiness.

What is the worth of anything, But for the happiness 'twill bring?

Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?

The sweetness of reunion is the joy of heaven.

Joy isn't the natural response to blessings - joy is what comes from acknowledging them.

there is no joy without gratitude

I'm glad I have you for my boyfriend." "Me too," I said. "Sometimes I have to pinch myself." She pinched my arm and smiled. "You're so cute.