Quotes About Happiness

Hay que retener firmemente las cosas agradables que nos ocurren y construirse con ellas una fortaleza, y alejar en cambio a manotazos y patadas todo lo feo que se empeña en rodearnos y aplastarnos contra el suelo. Si tenía un disgusto, era capaz de plantarle cara y espantarlo como a un fantoche, pensando en los buenos momentos que había vivido y en los que aún le quedaban por gozar.

Soy elástica, ya lo sabes, y no soy persona que se entregue pasivamente a la tristeza. Necesito tantísimo la alegría y nunca me cierro a ella...

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be.

I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble.

She said, Don't worry about me. I've done everything I've ever wanted to do. Cara, we must not wait to live the life we want. Find a way to be present with the people you love.

Here's kind of my motto - if you're not happy at home, you're not happy anywhere else.

Coming through the fire and through the storm of life with a strong man, my fiance Ashanti, whom I've been dating for eight months and two wonderful children beside me, I'm just so happy that I have been able to maintain my integrity and get to where I am today with the right energy around me.

Indeed, as we shall see, it is a bad mistake to confuse life satisfaction and happiness; the former is an overall judgment about life that comes from consideration, while the latter is an emotion, a mood, or a feeling, which is part of experiencing life.16

But on average over all the countries, rich or poor, a fourfold difference in incomes comes with a one-point increase in the evaluation of life.

Gerald Middleton was a man of mildly but persistently depressive temperament. Such men are not at their best at breakfast, nor is the week before Christmas their happiest time.

If you're not getting happier as you get older, then you're fuckin' up

May your luck soon be brighter! With such fine work, I know it will.

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

He knew that he did not make Harriet happy, but tended to disregard this. Happiness was what young people wanted; at his age he knew that comfort was more important. He had made her comfortable, and in that he was prepared to take a grim pride. After all, nobody else had done as much.

Of course, the spectacle of two people's happiness is always something of a magnet for the unclaimed.

My idea of absolute happiness is to sit in a hot garden all day, reading, or writing, utterly safe in the knowledge that the person I love will come home to me in the evening. Every evening.

Your happiness is the greatest revenge against those who bring you down.

Take a woman dancing and she'll have fun for one night; teach a woman how to dance and she'll have fun for the rest of her life.

I do know happy marriages, including mine. But why write about something like that? I can't imagine writing, without irony, about people who are happy all the time.

Are you happy?" "I think I may be going to be happy." Remember, things do not force, forge or fashion. They fall into place

Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.

Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.