Quotes About Happiness

Bach and Beethoven erected temples and churches on the heights. I only wanted to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home.

I absolutely love Shirley Temples. I don't know why, but ever since I was young, it's always been my favorite thing to drink!

It's better to enjoy life - selection is a temporary thing.

Anguish over the loss of a loved one or feelings of helplessness have complex roots. But in the end, they make you feel bad because they adjust your brain's chemistry. Happiness and its opposite are both electro-chemical reactions; those reactions are temporary and ineffable and could even have hidden benefits.

Qué quiere decir felices por siempre jamás, después de todo, sino una caída en lo ordinario, en la debilidad humana, acumulando desesperación, una caída de muerte?

If a man can reduce his needs to zero, he is truly free: there is nothing that can be taken from him and nothing anyone can do to hurt him.

A man with friends is the wealthiest man in the world.

Love, if you love me, lie next to me. Be for me, like rain, the getting out of the tiredness, the fatuousness, the semi- lust of intentional indifference. Be wet with a decent happiness.

Thought is a process of work, joy is an issue of work

Some of the men fired their guns into the air for joy.

Is happy the same as contented do you think?... as I see it, happiness is something that comes in bursts from outside – love at first sight, winning at chess, getting good news. Happiness is something that seizes you. ...I think of contentment as an everyday thing. It's what you feel when you don't want anything more – until you do. It's nice, but it needs a shot of happiness now and again.

I'm in a happy relationship, me and my ex are on really good terms, my kid and I are in a good spot.

What was better, after all, than being in love with your best friend?

say she wasn't sincerely happy for me, but with every new beginning, there is an inevitable end we must first accept

She could get upset, but what good would that do? Bitterness was never a good recipe for happiness.

Therefore in this more biblical way of looking at things joy (beatitude) is the consequence and not the enemy of law. What Jesus gives us in the Sermon on the Mount, therefore, is that new law that would discipline our desires, our minds, and our bodies so as to make real happiness possible.

The simple fact of the matter is that on account of the mysterious curvature of the will that we call original sin, we deviate from the very actions and attitudes that will make us happy. In

What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.

The only place people find fulfillment is within themselves. And too often, that's the last place they look.

Inner needs drive external accomplishments but can never be satisfied by those external accomplishments. Which is merely to say that, for some people, the inability to be satisfied is a chronic condition.

For Aristotle, it is not within our power to seek anything else, and thus /all/ acts have for their basic purpose the attainment of happiness or that which is good in itself and not merely as a means to something else.

Salvation is not a matter of getting a reward that will make up for a rotten deal; it is a matter of entering by faith into the happiness - the hilarity beyond all liking and happening - that has been pounding on our door all along.

I think that anyone who reaches the age of three or four has more than likely already had all the misery he or she needs.

Pero yo le podría evitar el sufrimiento, la lucha, el dolor y la tristeza a los que va a tener que enfrentarse. ?Nuestra experiencia es lo único que no podemos ofrecer a los demás. Cada uno tiene que pasar por su propio dolor y pesar para poder encontrar la alegría y la felicidad que hay al otro lado ?le dijo Merlín con dulzura.