Quotes About Happiness

It seems a long time since I remembered all I have to be grateful for. Perhaps that's why it's been such a long time since I've been really happy.

For the first time I realized that gratitude and joy were connected, like conjoined twins. I couldn't be happy because I wasn't grateful and I wasn't grateful because I wasn't allowing myself to be. I was too busy hunting the next prize to appreciate the prize already at home. What I had was never enough, not because of the deficit in what I had but because of the deficit in me.

The price of happiness is the risk of losing it.

Romance novels are all about desire and happily-ever-after, but happily-ever-after doesn't come from desire—at least not the kind portrayed in pulp romances. Real love is not to desire a person but to desire their happiness—sometimes even at the expense of our own happiness. Real love is to expand our own capacity for tolerance and caring, to actively seek another's well-being. All else is simply a charade of self-interest.

To love someone is to desire their happiness. [Richelle Bach]

If you love only those who give you happy news, you will never love those worthy of your trust.

Life has a way of making us pay for our happiness. [Richelle Bach]

Real love is not to desire a person but to desire their happiness – sometimes even at the expense of our own happiness. Real love is to expand our own capacity for tolerance and caring, to actively seek another's well-being. All else is simply a charade of self-interest.

The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood

I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.

I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing.

Morning plus coffee equals comfort, or some nonsensical equation.

There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.

the utilitarian test for whether the suggestion made proves to be "good in the way of belief." Granted that hearing what such a being has to say may change your wants, nevertheless you test those new wants and that purported truth in the same way: by living them, trying them out in everyday life, seeing whether they make you and yours happier. Suppose that a source which you believe to

Human beings need to be made happier, but they do not need to be redeemed, for they are not degraded beings, not immaterial souls imprisoned in material bodies, not innocent souls corrupted by original sin.

And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don't take the opportunity to be happy, you may never get another chance again.

Don't let men get too happy. It would kill me. (581 Ways To Kill Your Boss)

Peace and joy are two main fruits of Christ's kingdom. Let the world be as it will, if we cannot rejoice in the world, yet we may rejoice in the Lord.

You wanted happiness, I can't blame you for that, and maybe a mouth sounds idiotic when it blathers on about joy but tell me you love this, tell me you're not miserable.

We clutch our bellies and roll on the floor... When I say this, it should mean laughter, not poison.

Here is the part where everyone was happy all the time and we were all forgiven, even though we didn't deserve it.

leave the gun on the table, this has nothing to do with happiness.

I want what everyone wants.

Energy is that amazing feeling that comes to life inside of you when you're happy and believe in yourself.