Quotes About Happiness

They gave each other a smile with a future in it.

I was having a great time, enjoying the best summer of my life, fucked up. Fucked up is good.

Just being happy helps other souls along Their burdens may be heavy and they not strong And your own sky will lighten, If other skies you brighten, by just being happy with a heart full of song.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.

Every day you're alive and someone loves you is a miracle.

My husband's car goes from zero to sixty in ten seconds, and that makes him happy. I just don't know why he'd ever want to do that. Maybe someday he'll find an open stretch of road and play Frisbee with himself.

we are naturally inclined to search for happiness, but he argues that nature has destined us never to find it. We will always be somewhat discontented, and that very discontent is good for us by spurring on our energies and our creativity.

To them, happiness was not, as it often is in present-day discussions, simply a subjective state, such as might be induced by chemicals; it meant attaining the preconditions for personal happiness, including domestic affection, material sufficiency and a suitable degree of freedom.

The pursuit of happiness is a lifelong struggle.

What I've learned is not to pay much attention to those that say, "Money will not make you happy." To them, I answer, it's certainly a good place to start. And not having it can make you sad.

I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself. A mouth-smile is different. You can fake a mouth-smile any time you want, simply by moving your lips. I've also learned that a real mouth-smile always has an eye-smile to go with it. So watch out, I say, when someone smiles at you but his eyes stay the same. It's sure to be a phony.

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

Mr. Wonka: "Don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted." Charlie Bucket: "What happened?" Mr. Wonka: "He lived happily ever after.

I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself. A mouth-smile is different. You can fake a mouth-smile any time you want, simply by moving your lips. I've also learned that a real mouth-smile always has an eye-smile to go with it. So watch out, I say, when someone smiles at you but his eyes stay the same. It's sure to be a phony.

The thing is, when I had my first success it did coincide with the end of my first marriage, and because I went on to have a very, very unhappy two years, I don't think I equate career success with personal happiness.

Extreme emotion destroys wealth. Anything that you are infatuated with, or resent, rules you. If you get elated or depressed, the emotions rule you. It's smart to have strategies that override extreme emotions. Money is made, grown and given from strategies, not emotions. Many people will tell you that the purpose of life is happiness, but in the extreme, happiness is an emotion and will cost you money. Polarized emotions, at either extreme, cost you money.

wanting and enjoyment are separate pathways in the brain, and the stronger wanting becomes, the weaker our enjoyment of life is.

Have recovered somewhat from massive, delicious, inundating influx of life memories. Man, it is soooooooooo goooooooooood to be ME again.

If the girls keep dancing, everybody's happy. If the girls don't dance, nobody's happy.

That same power translates everywhere, all around the world, because nothing expresses joy like singing together.

That night, I learned the hard way: If the girls keep dancing, everybody's happy. If the girls don't dance, nobody's happy.

It you're feeling happy vibes, they're from me, " Stephanie told me after she mailed the tape. "I'm vibin' you real hard. I'm building a wall of love around you, three inches all around.