Quotes About Happiness

Of course many of us were loaded with self-hate and wanted to change. How could it have been otherwise? All we heard and read about homosexuality was that crap about how we were inverts, perverts, queers — a menace to children, poison to everybody else, doomed never to be happy.

Anything is possible with sunshine and a little pink

Being happy never goes out of style

Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.

She knew sorrow would always be her companion, no matter what happiness life might hold in store. And while her innocent illusions were forever lost to her, she had been forced to seek and find inner resources she had never imagined she might possess.

on their wedding day?

You were the one who brightened up the dull days, Gram, Hadleigh thought now. You, with your love and your laughter and with that magical smile of yours.

Quitting leads to much less happiness in life than perseverance and hope. Salva Dut

He traced her arched eyebrow. "Every morning when I wake up with you at my side, you're more beautiful than yesterday.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life. Linus Pauling

A liberal is someone who believes that the right economic system, the right political reforms, the right curriculum, the right psychotherapy, and the right moral posture will do away with unfairness, snobbery, resentment, prejudice, tragic conflict, and neurosis. A liberal is a person who thinks that there is a straight road to health and happiness.

The paradox is that liberalism is concerned with the emotions above all else, as proof of which the word happiness stands at the very center of its thought, but in its effort to establish the emotions, or certain among them, in some sort of freedom, liberalism somehow tends to deny them in their full possibility.

If you are not dancing, your dead.

Comparison is the thief of joy. Theodore Roosevelt

I could stay in every night for the rest of my life and my mother still wouldn't be happy. In fact, maybe she'd be better off if I finally did go out and meet a grand demise. Get the waiting game over with. Because, as my mother will tell you, there are worse things than having your daughter abducted. There's getting her back and realizing you've lost her after all.

People with a history of depression often appear happiest right before they commit suicide. Not because their depression has passed, but because they've finally chosen a course of action.

All happy families are alike, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way'?" "Anna Karenina.

Without sadness, there can be no happiness, which means a state of eternal bliss really wouldn't be that blissful. In fact, at a certain point, it would be mostly annoying. Nothing to strive for, nothing to look forward to, nothing to do.

My mother would watch him and sigh. He's a young soul, she would say, with a tender heart. She worried for him. But never for me. I was the happy one. At least, that's how the story goes.

Four varieties in society: lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.

I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.