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Quotes About Happiness

Tonight, I am a Perfect Girl, because I had a perfect night. And it ended with three perfect kisses. Three. What a lucky number.
~ Adriana Trigiani
I learned that I wasn't happy. It's a terrifying thing to admit. It puts everyone around you in a state of paralysis because they think that they are somehow responsible for your sadness and can fix it. Of course they cannot. I know happiness exists somewhere and if I knew where, I would go to it and claim it. I realize I have spent my life reacting to things and not initiating them.
~ Adriana Trigiani
He just likes to have fun, Papa. That's not a quality that gets you far in life.
~ Adriana Trigiani
You might need to walk into happiness, like it's a joint, and once you're inside, you own it.
~ Adriana Trigiani
Children need to see delight in the eyes of adults, if only to give them a sense that happiness is within reach, even when it isn't. Adults should be full of possibility, so the children might develop a sense of adventure. Children should live with the confidence that they are loved. Love frees them to embrace adventure, to seek truth, and to take care of one another.
~ Adriana Trigiani
A long time ago I went to a fortuneteller, and she told me that when you have a dream come true, you must then re-dream. You must not stay in the past, because all of life changes anyway, and if you try to hang on to happiness, or success, or even the people in your life, you will be unhappy. You have to set new goals.
~ Adriana Trigiani
It's never enough, Ciro. Never enough. Believe me, eventually, you run out of ways to make a woman happy.
~ Adriana Trigiani
I realize now that a happy mother might very well make a joyful child.
~ Adriana Trigiani
It seemed to Ciro that so much of life was about not holding on, but letting go and in so doing, the beauty of the past and the happiness he felt then came full circle like a band of gold.
~ Adriana Trigiani
There was no comfort in happy memories; they just made it all seem worse.
~ Adriana Trigiani
It's important to accept a happy life when it's presented to you. The only time you can go wrong is when you make a decision to please others and not yourself.
~ Adriana Trigiani
There's nothing sad about loving someone so much that nothing makes sense without him. It's the definition of joy.
~ Adriana Trigiani
please know you will always be in my heart, and when I think of you, I will say a prayer of gratitude. I wish you the best in all aspects of your life, as I know no one is more deserving of happiness than you.
~ Adriana Trigiani
For many men value appearances more than reality—thus they violate what's right. Everyone's prepared to sigh over some suffering man, though no sorrow really eats their hearts, or they can pretend to join another person's happiness forcing their faces into smiling masks. But a good man discerns true character— he's not fooled by eyes feigning loyalty, favouring him with watered-down respect.
~ Aeschylus
Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man fortunate.
~ Aeschylus
We're not gods; why then expect to enjoy a lifetime of unbroken happiness?
~ Aeschylus
Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further.
~ Aeschylus
Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations.
~ Aesop
He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.
~ Aesop
If men had all they wished, they would be often ruined.
~ Aesop
If men had all they wished, they would be often ruined. The
~ Aesop
Be content with your lot.
~ Aesop
If your mind is happy, then you are happy anywhere you go. When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look. Truth us all there is. It's like when you've learned how to read - you can then read anywhere you go.
~ Ajahn Chah
Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.
~ Al Capp