Quotes About Happiness

I'm the world's least happy atheist. I miss having religious faith, but trying to have it seems like trying to be in love with someone that you're not in love with.

When you are able to embrace the reality that in any given moment you have everything you need, you'll find a way to be happy with what you have.

It was an image Melody would never forget. Or was it the emotions the image conjured - hope, excitement, and fear of the unknown, all three tightly braided together, creating a fourth emotion that was impossible to define. She was getting a second chance at happiness and it tickled like swallowing fifty fuzzy caterpillars.

All she needed now was a happy ending.

he makes a strong case for the cultivation of nondual perception and a way of life that is free from constraints—mental, personal, and social. To attain perfect happiness and harmony in life, he says, you need not become a sage; it is sufficient to free your mind and flow along smoothly with the course of Tao.

and they shared her joy. Luke 1:58

The thought of losing him again kills me. This is of course a figure of speech, I will remain alive, but I will not know happiness.

Well, the old Autumn didn't know anything about reality. The old Autumn was quite happy living in a childish make-believe world where bad things didn't happen and where you could make up whatever silly story you liked and tell yourself it was true.

Ampia e gialla è la luce della sera E tenera è di aprile la frescura, tu sei in ritardo ormai di molti anni, eppure di vederti sono lieta.

If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.

Don't frown so, you'll look old before your time.

The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. And they lived happily ever after

Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good things more often than the bad. Then, gradually, the empty silent parts of you fill up with sounds of talking and laughter again, and the jagged edges of sadness are softened by memories.

A lot of people I know would hate that ending, but not me. I loved it. Mainly because I got to make the book happy. I decided they made it. They made it to the past. I decided the past was our world, and the future was their world. It was parallel worlds.

they lived happily ever after

All of it was new to him. After a life of Sameness and predictability, he was awed by the surprises that lay beyond each curve of the road. He slowed the bike again and again to look with wonder at wildflowers, go enjoy the throaty warble of a new bird nearby, or merely to watch the way wind shifted the leaves in the trees. During his twelve years in the community, he had never felt such simple moments of exquisite happiness.

He had seen a birthday party, with one child singled out and celebrated on his day, so that now he understood the joy of being an individual, special and unique and proud.

Squalor has nothing to do with money. Squalor happens when people are sad. And Commander Melanoff was very sad.

what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine

Bethan, gleeful, left

satisfaction.

But now Jonas had experienced real sadness. He had felt grief. He knew that there was no quick comfort for emotions like those. These were deeper and they did not need to be told. They were felt. Today, he felt happiness.

But he was a happy and easygoing toddler. Now he moved unsteadily across the room, laughing. "Gay!" he chirped. "Gay!" It was the way he said his own name.

Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it.