Quotes About Happiness

It's smiling that makes you happy.

Happiness isn't about hiding from suffering, but about integrating it into the fabric of our existence.

Je ne veux pas triompher, je veux vivre.

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies

Man's happiness today consists in "having fun." Having fun lies in the satisfaction of consuming and "taking in" commodities, sights, food, drinks, cigarettes, people, lectures, books, movies—all are consumed, swallowed. The world is one great object for our appetite, a big apple, a big bottle, a big breast; we are the sucklers, the eternally expectant ones, the hopeful ones—and the eternally disappointed ones.

To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness.

The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.

Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends to undermine the inner security, happiness, reason and the capacity for love in the individual; it tends to turn him into an automaton who pays for his human failure with increasing mental sickness, and with despair hidden under a frantic drive for work and so called pleasure.

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

The value judgments we make determine our actions, and upon their validity rests our mental health and happiness.

Whether or not we are aware of it, there is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves, and there is nothing that gives us greater pride and happiness than to think, to feel, and to say what is ours.

Few parents have the courage and independence to care more for their children's happiness than for their success.

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living

Every child breaks a rule or two, of course! But a worrisome trait to notice is if your child violates rules and gets joy and adrenaline from doing so. Future psychopaths can only feel when they do something bad and get away with it. Normal life doesn't provide them with enough serotonin and happiness. So watch out for a child who seems happiest when they have stolen another kid's toy, or deliberately done something you have told them specifically NOT to do!

Do you," he murmured, "do you have any - Smarties? You brought some once, I remember, in a tube with a lid on. They were small, and many-coloured - all different colors - and they tasted very good.

I don't care where I come from or who you are. I can make you happy, and you make me happy. We could have a happily ever after.

Instead of going back and looking at the question, people tinker with the solution, trying to make it fit."-Claude Legrande..."The consequences of failing to do that [in our personal lives] are the same as those facing businesses - even more dire, perhaps, because what's being squandered isn't just the potential for profits. It's the potential for happiness. We miss opportunities to innovate and to make positive changes in our lives when we aren't willing to question ourselves.

Maybe it was this place, this strange, ramshackle, warm-hearted place, that had given his wife that air of laughing, welcoming life. Because here she bloomed. With him she had faded and he had faded with her. Yet here she was, his Jane again. His hope. And he had never, ever wanted to hope again.

Feeling passionate about something is like getting a peak at your soul smiling back at you.

I love acting like I'm in love. It's a very positive thing.

It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.

I am always happy when my body remembers to feel things other than scared.

In 1790s ladies' debating societies were still deliberating 'In the Marriage State, which constitutes the greater Evil, Love without Money, or Money without Love?' 12

You'll never truly be happy until you've found a place that you can call your own. A place that will be in your heart.