Quotes About Happiness

Yet even when we experience pleasant things we are never content. We either fear that the pleasure might disappear, or we hope that it will instensify

Comer helado es agradable. Encontrar el amor verdadero es más agradable. ¿Cree el lector que si comemos suficiente helado, el placer acumulado podría llegar a equipararse con el embeleso del amor verdadero?

Kahneman found that when counting moments of joy and moments of drudgery, bringing up a child turns out to be a rather unpleasant affair.

Ancient Greece the philosopher Epicurus explained that worshipping gods is a waste of time, that there is no existence after death, and that happiness is the sole purpose of life.

John Stuart Mill, explained that happiness is nothing but pleasure and freedom from pain, and that beyond pleasure and pain there is no good and no evil. Anyone who tries to deduce good and evil from something else (such as the word of God, or the national interest) is fooling you, and perhaps fooling himself too.

Rien n'est plus beau qu'un corps nu. Le plus beau vêtement qui puisse habiller une femme ce sont les bras de l'homme qu'elle aime. Mais, pour celles qui n'ont pas eu la chance de trouver ce bonheur, je suis là.

I know your miracles are many, she prayed. Thank you for always finding a way to help and protect our family. Please, Agios Spyridon, she pleaded, please walk beside me and guide me. Hold my hand and help me make the right decisions on my life. Please help me find strength, the same strength you gave Yia-yia. Please guide me as you have guided her, and help me lead Evie toward a happy and fulfilled life.

Work had to be enjoyable on a daily basis.

happiness is nothing other than the enjoyment of the highest good,

I'm one Pia Zadora, the same way all the time. That's why I'm happy. It took me a long time to get to the point where I could be myself all the time.

My wife and I were never happy here. Spain can be narrow-minded, and provincial. In LA you don't have to justify yourself. I think I will leave here again soon and move back there.

You know who your true friends are when things go wrong for you, but the opposite is also true. When things go well, the people who really love you are happy.

I think that in life you don't need too much; you need friends, you need to do what you like doing.

Happiness is the purpose of humans so it must need to be for the good of others otherwise one's happiness could hurt many others."

People wealth consists upon their freedom, individual resources and good social life.

But isn't it clear that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of that fraction known as happiness? And what sense would there be in all the numberless victims of the 200 Years War if there still remained in our life some cause for envy? But some cause did remain, because noses remained, the button noses and classical noses mentioned in that conversation on our walk, and because there are some whose love many people want, and others whose love nobody wants.

Isn't it clear that bliss and envy--they are the numerator and the denominator of the fraction known as happiness.

And happiness ... Well, after all, desires torment us, don't they? And, clearly, happiness is when there are no more desires, not one ... What a mistake, what ridiculous prejudice it's been to have marked happiness always with a plus sign. Absolute happiness should, of course, carry a minus sign -- the divine minus.

Unhappiness is only a change. Happiness itself is only change. So what does it matter? The great thing is to see life--to understand--to feel--to work--to fight--to endure.

We should go to the masses and learn from them, synthesize their experience into better, articulated principles and methods, then do propaganda among the masses, and call upon them to put these principles and methods into practice so as to solve their problems and help them achieve liberation and happiness.

Oh, we are going to be so happy away from all the things that almost got us but couldn't quite because we were too smart for them!

All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself

Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world?

Retirement is the last opportunity for individuals to reinvent themselves, let go of the past, and find peace and happiness within.