Quotes About Happiness

A society that does not make room for imperfection can never be a happy society.

that which deludes you to be unhappy can be overpowered by another delusion that causes greater unhappiness

the power of maya: that which deludes you to be unhappy can be overpowered by another delusion that causes greater unhappiness.

Quoting her [Jane Austen] is the second-best recipe for happiness I've ever heard of.

Walau tak ada yang sempurna, hidup ini indah apa adanya.

Ajarkan aku menjadi naif. Senaif dirimu yang masih bisa tertawa. Senaif kebahagiaan kita berdua. Karena setiap detik dikala kenyataan mulai bersinggungan. Aku rasakan sakit yang nyaris tak tertahankan. Atau ajarkan aku menjadi penipu, apabila ternyata kau merasakan sakit di dalam tawamu.

We are safer and happier when we care for each other in community, when we do things for each other.

Not an agent kiss, not anything remotely resembling a peck-on-the-cheek kiss, but a let's-get-started kiss. One that even in hardened, love-tired Los Angeles had a better-than-even shot of producing a happy finish

Although Lewis's Trilogy is too often portrayed as an uninformed and inaccurate attack on science, a closer look reveals that it is, in fact, a prophetic warning against scientism and an inspiring vision for a regenerate science. Lewis warns that scientism -- a caricature of science that rejects all moral goods except survival and abandons objective truth in favor of power -- will dehumanize us by stripping us of pity, happiness, and freedom.

Envy hurt exponentially more than heartbreak because your soul was torn in two, half soaring with happiness for another person, half mired in a well of self-pity and pain.

My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites.

So I'm not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I'm happy that I have them I think it's good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside, like anger.

I sing because I'm happy, I sing because I'm free. His eye is on the sparrow And I know He watches me

I think we ought to live happily ever after.

Love seems to be as Essential as Sunlight

seeing his face light up when I told him. He was so happy

to their cars in the driveway. I smiled, watching

It turns out from a number of more recent studies that reported happiness is strongly positively linked with the change or growth in GDP per capita from year to year.

Grotesquely, there are cheerleaders for the king of Bhutan because of his claim that he seeks to increase gross national happiness, when Bhutan is one of the poorest and one of the more authoritarian countries in the world.

Growth alone is not enough for a good society—but neither is happiness alone.

How we feel about ourselves, the joy we get from living, ultimately depends directly on how the mind filters and interprets everyday experience. Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe.

But until we decide what "enough" means, we'll never know whether we've won or not; we'll never be happy.

You help yourself to a hug whenever you want one, sugar. They're warm, and they're free.

Just as variety was a boon to happiness, ritual was a great duller of pain,