Quotes About Happiness

I heard somebody define heaven once," she said, looking at Pearl, "as a place where, when you get there, all the dogs you ever loved run to greet you.

It is one of the secrets of happiness that you know which battles you can win and which you can't.

It turns out that what money buys has rapidly diminishing emotional returns ... As long as we're not destitute, happiness depends less on getting what we want than appreciating what we already have.

The young lady laughed merrily--a melodious ripple of sound. I have heard women's laughter compared to the tinkle of silver bells, but to that musical tintinnabulation was now added something so deliciously human and girlish that the whole effect was nothing short of enchanting.

One of Barron's maxims is "The sure sign that God is alive in you is joy.

Every boy should have two things: a dog and a mother who lets him have one

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

Recalling days of sadness, memories haunt me. Recalling days of happiness, I haunt my memories.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.

There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.

I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.

Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness.

Sometimes we don't find the thing that will make us happy because we can't give up the thing that was supposed to.

In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.

To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.

You can be sad recalling sad times, but if you really want to be sad, recall happy times.

Whatever you set aside to seek happiness, remember where you put it.

There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.

To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it.

Happiness is life served up with a scoop of acceptance, a topping of tolerance and sprinkles of hope, although chocolate sprinkles also work.

The little money I have — that is my wealth, but the things I have for which I would not take money, that is my treasure.

How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake?

The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness.