Quotes About Happiness

Is it possible to be happy before anything happens, before one's desires are gratified, in spite of life's difficulties, in the very midst of physical pain, old age, disease, and death?

We manage to avoid being happy while struggling to become happy, fulfilling one desire after the next, banishing our fears, grasping at pleasure, recoiling from pain—and thinking, interminably, about how best to keep the whole works up and running

Among the many paradoxes of human life, this is perhaps the most peculiar and consequential: We often behave in ways that are guaranteed to make us unhappy. Many of us spend our lives marching with open eyes toward remorse, regret, guilt, and disappointment. And nowhere do our injuries seem more casually self-inflicted, or the suffering we create more disproportionate to the needs of the moment, than in the lies we tell to other human beings. Lying is the royal road to chaos.

It is inevitable, therefore, that some approaches to politics, economics, science, and even spirituality and ethics will be objectively better than their competitors (by any measure of better we might wish to adopt), and gradations here will translate into very real differences in human happiness.

I want to maximize my happiness, but I am generally not moved to do what I believe will make me happier than I now am.

We often behave in ways that are guaranteed to make us unhappy.

Happiness and suffering, however extreme, are mental events. The mind depends upon the body, and the body upon the world, but everything good or bad that happens in your life must appear in consciousness to matter.

During the normal course of events, your mind will determine the quality of your life.

I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.

Then amongst flowers and springs, Making delightful sport, Sat lovers without conflict, without flame

By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd; The sports of children satisfy the child.

I wasn't out drinking and abusing my body. I simply loved to go out and dance.

I only really watch sport. That's where you see real joy. I don't like watching much else on TV, because it's generally either twisted or sad.

Watching a ball game is one of the sweetest pleasures in the world.

Real value isn't in what you own, drive, wear or live. The greater value is found in love and life, health and strength, friends and family!

A heart full of love and compassion is the main source of inner strength, willpower, happiness, and mental tranquility

Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

True beauty is knowing who you are and believing in yourself. Happy people know their purpose, have courage to fight for it and strength to keep going.

Don't allow negative people to steal your joy. When you lose your joy, you lose your strength.

For those who are always courteous and respectful of elders, four things increase: life, beauty, happiness and strength.

You bring life to my world you give me strength to go on And face life even when it seems all hopes gone Labeled my wife but you truly exceed the title You my future my happiness my heart my idol

To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness.

Joy is strength- Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. She gives most who gives with Joy.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.