Quotes About Happiness

Love could not induce us to take on the burden of propagating the species without promising us the greatest happiness we could imagine.

Happiness is good for the body," Proust tells us, "but it is grief which develops the strengths of the mind.

The happiness which may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust's therapeutic conception, it reveals the extent to which our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.

In any case, unless we learn how to appreciate what we have, there is no point striving for more.

One of love's greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us seriously happy. 2.     Chloe

There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.

One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.

TIMMS: I don't see how we can understand it. Most of the stuff poetry's about hasn't happened to us yet. HECTOR: But it will, Timms. It will. And then you will have the antidote ready! Grief. Happiness. Even when you're dying. We're making your deathbeds here, boys. LOCKWOOD: Fucking Ada. HECTOR: Poetry is the trailer! Forthcoming attractions!

She found that after she had written something down, she was happy. Happy as if she had been reading. And it came to her again that did not want to simply be a reader. A reader was next door to being a spectator where as when she was writing she was doing. And doing was her duty.

I liked the fact that the happiest night of my life was followed by a day like any other. It seemed to say that such happiness, so long denied, was now a part of my everyday life.

Ruth marveled at how two souls— two completely different species— could make each other so happy. If you were kind to animals, they repaid that kindness a thousandfold.

Ruth marveled at how two souls—two completely different species—could make each other so happy. If you were kind to animals, they repaid that kindness a thousandfold. People disappointed; animals never did.

She remembers the pain of losing him, but she smiles at the happiness he brought her, cherishing the joy she felt at his side.

Your religion is all about being miserable, and wretched. Ours had time for play, and joy. How is this an improvement?

SMILE - IT NO BROKE YOUR FACE! -on a stone in Kalaupapa

Does this bring more joy into the world, or does it diminish joy in the world?

Do not wait for the future to be happy. You are happy now, or you are not.

Why live in a soap opera when you can star in a great love story?

THE MYTH: Money is the indicator of wealth. THE REALITY: Quality of life is the real indicator of wealth.

You were born to enjoy your life, not repair it.

Be sure you don't lose your happiness teaching others people how to be happy. Your happiness is your teaching.

You cannot afford to allow your happiness to depend on any external situation. You must find the source of your happiness within you. Then nothing in the outside world will be able to remove your peace.

if it's not advisable to pray for a particular result, what should you pray for? Pray or intend for qualities of experience such as well-being, inner peace, abundance, harmony, and happiness.

Agony is not something that happens to you. To agonize is a choice.