Quotes About Happiness

I have stopped thinking too much. It all started against West Indies. I told myself that I want to enjoy my life. I don't want selection issues to rule my happiness.

Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.

Be happy now. It's a great Western disease that we'll be happy in the future - when we get higher status or that BMW or that promotion or this project finished. Instead, be happy now.

What Western society teaches us is that if you get enough money, power, and beautiful people to have sex with, that's going to bring you happiness. That's what every commercial, every magazine, music, movie teaches us. That's a fallacy.

You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented... culture, we don't ask how to make a pig happy. We ask how to grow it faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper, and that's not a noble goal.

Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands.

Life has an interesting way of teaching even the most powerful people that joy from wealth is fleeting at best.

I'm just not the outgoing bubble of energy. But if I know you, it's different. Practical jokes. Have fun. I'm not looking for any new friends. I got my friends.

It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry.

Social scientists have found that the fastest way to feel happiness is to practice gratitude.

I'm sounding like Oprah, but if you're not practicing contentment where you are now, you're not getting contentment when you get what you want.

The more you practise happiness, the better you get at it. So if you spend lots of time practising being depressed, you're going to get really good at being depressed. And if you spend lots of time practising being happy, you're going to get better at being happy.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

It is out of love and not duress that I look after Dilip saab. I am not looking for praises to be called a devoted wife. Just to touch him and cuddle him is the world's best thing that's happening to me. I adore him and he is my breath itself.

It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.

Before every show, we pray together, and after, we talk and have fun and laugh. We make sure to keep each other sane and happy.

I definitely hope and pray everyone has this kind of a married life - contented and happy.

I am deeply grateful for the concern of all those who constantly prayed for my happiness.

I think that the artists who don't get involved in preaching messages probably are happier - but you see, I have to live with Nina, and that is very difficult.

I'm not like a preacher or philosopher, but at the end of the day, life is about happiness.

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

I know that money is precious - but, at least to me, laughter and expression are even more so.

Children are so precious.

It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.