Quotes About Happiness

I want my daughters to be beautiful, accomplished, and good; to be admired, loved and respected; to have a happy youth, to be well and wisely married, and to lead useful, pleasant lives, with as little care and sorrow to try and find them as God sees fit to send. To be loved, and chosen by a good man is the best and sweetest thing which can be to a woman; and I sincerely hope my girls may know this beautiful experience.

For to be independent and earn the praise of those she loved were the dearest wishes of her heart, and this seemed to be the first step toward that happy goal.

Nuestras cargas están aquí, nuestro camino está delante de nosotras y el deseo de bondad y felicidad es lo que nos dirige a traves de muchas penas y equivocaciones hasta la paz.

febrile even, but happier than I have been in weeks.

Nothing makes Penstemon happier than handing a favorite book to someone who wants to read it. I'm the same. I suppose you could say this delights us although 'delight' is a word I rarely use. Delight seems insubstantial; happiness feels more grounded; ecstasy is what I shoot for; satisfaction is hardest to attain.

Delight seems insubstantial; happiness feels more grounded; ecstasy is what I shoot for; satisfaction is hardest to attain.

He laughed a great deal and enjoyed the speculation he caused.

Hamilton then picked up a slim volume on the table and turned it over in his hands. "Ah, this is the constitution," he said. "Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instrument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare, and mutual happiness. But when we become old and corrupt, it will bind us no longer.

As long as the right conditions were met, this controlling father was always happy to be generous.

I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions and not upon our circumstances.

No governm[en]t could give us tranquillity and happiness at home, which did not possess sufficient stability and strength to make us respectable abroad.

I went home in great delight.

I lose all taste for the pursuits of ambition. I sigh for nothing but the company of my wife and my baby.

Money can't buy no blessins.

If Mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.

The lift of her heart she'd felt on the outcrop she now felt again, and it wasn't just love. She'd felt love before, known its depths when her mother died. This was something rarer. Happiness, Laurel thought, that must be what this is.

This is what we want," she said, her voice deepening, the emotion so often controlled fully unbridled now. "To be like this always. No past or future, pure enough to live totally in the present.

Life is one grand sweet song so start the music

Just think how happy you'd be if you lost everything you have right now & then got it back.

Felicidad es minimalista. Es sencilla y desnuda. Es una casi nada que lo es todo.

Happiness is the same for everyone, but unhappiness is different for each person.

La insatisfacción de los humanos, ese querer siempre algo más, algo mejor, algo distinto, es el origen de innumerables desdichas.

Os deseo un año de salud, de satisfacciones, de buen trabajo, un año durante el cual tengáis cada día el gusto de vivir, sin esperar que los días que hayan tenido que pasar para encontrar su satisfacción y sin tener necesidad de poner esperanzas de felicidad en los días que hayan de venir.

E, por outro lado, o que seria pior? A dor da felicidade perdida ou a amargura gelada do não vivido, da felicidade nunca atingida?