Quotes About Happiness

Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence.

Ich gönnte keinem andern, fuhr er fort zu lügen, Ein solch olympisch Schlemmerglück, Nur dir, mein liebster Freund, allein. Geniesse dies mit vollen Zügen.

It wasn't awful to be a man's sex object if you wanted to be, if it made you feel good, if everyone was happy in the end.

What if I'm truly never happy again? What if I've just experienced the most happiness, the most love, I'll ever know?

Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.

I sing about life. I am happy, but life is sad.

I don't think you ever wanted to be happy anyway. It don't suit you, so you managed to avoid it.

If you want one thing too much it's likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk

It's happiness to see you.

I don't sing about myself. I sing about life. I am happy, but life is sad. The songs don't belong to me . . . They belong to those who hear them.

was not old enough to understand the need to go back to a place where things were simple. He had no happiness in his face, the young ranger; perhaps he had never had a place where things were simple, a place he could think about when he needed to remember happiness. Perhaps the young ranger had been unlucky—he might have no good place or good time to remember.

He had know several men who blew their heads off, and he has pondered it much. It seemed to him it was probably because they could not take enough happiness just from the sky and the moon to carry them over the low feelings that came to all men.

I don't sing about myself," Campo said. "I sing about life. I am happy, but life is sad. The songs don't belong to me." "Well, you sing them, who do they belong to?" Pea asked. "They belong to those who hear them," Po said.

soon he would have to learn to call his depression happiness in order to endure it.

Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool. All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things. You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but you will be still. This is the happiness of the Buddha. —Ajahn Chah

Revenge is living well, without you. -Joyce Carol Oates

The overall intent is to make everyone sufficiently happy (or in some cases, insufficiently unhappy).

Den lyckliga människan är den gåtfullaste

the notion that having a job or an income of any kind should be happiness enough has become outdated.

It's not WHAT you do for a living that brings career satisfaction. It's WHO you get to be while doing what you do that does.

This was something we sometimes did on days we got home late—on days we were too tired to get into the big stuff. We each picked one thing from the day to tell each other about. One good thing from our separate lives.

My father never measured success the way he did - reaching the top-top of something, as if there was an objective tip-top. My father measured it by how well you figured out what you wanted for your life - what you needed to be happy -Georgia

Gwyn looks up at her daughter, makes her meet her eyes. "What I think is that there is no good way or bad way. And the sooner we let go of expectations about how things are supposed to go, the happier we get to be.

another small reminder how lucky I was to love him.