Quotes About Happiness

La vita è un rosario di piccole miserie che il filosofo sgrana sorridendo.

Be happy, noble heart. Be blessed for all the good you have done and will yet do. Let my gratitude remain hidden in the shadows like your good deeds.

So, do live and be happy, children dear to my heart, and never forget that, until the day when God deigns to unveil the future to mankind, all human wisdom is contained in these two words: 'wait' and 'hope'!

A volte la gioia fa un effetto strano, ti opprime quasi come il dolore.

No hay ventura ni desgracia en el mundo, sino la comparación de un estado con otro.

Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile.

Spesso passiamo in tal modo accanto alal felicità snza vederla, senza guardarla, oppure, se l'abbiamo vista e guardata, senza riconoscerla.!

Le bonheur est comme ces palais des îles enchantées dont les dragons gardent les portes. Il faut combattre pour le conquérir. Alexandre Dumas, Le comte de Monte-Cristo, chapitre 5

Youth is the flower of which love is the fruit; Happy the gatherer who picks it after watching it slowly mature.

Montaigne said long ago: Were I not to follow the straight road for its straightness, I should follow it for having found by experience that in the end it is commonly the happiest and most useful track. The doctrine of interest rightly understood is not then new, but among the Americans of our time it finds universal acceptance; it has become popular there; you may trace it at the bottom of all their actions, you will remark it in all they say.

The happy and the powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.

We have not to seek to make ourselves like our progenitors, but to strive to work out that species of greatness and happiness which is our own.

Parties are a necessary evil in free governments. . . . America has . . . lost the great parties which once divided the nation; and if her happiness is considerably increased, her morality has suffered by their extinction.

We should not strive to resemble our fathers but should strain to achieve a type of greatness and happiness which belongs to us alone.

Few parents have the courage and independence to care more for their children's happiness than for their success.

Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.

Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever. The ever after, what precisely was that? Your dreams, your life, your death, your everything. Was it the blank space that went on without us? The forever after we were gone?

The best way to die is when you're living.

Fourth time's the charm, she says to people who ask her what the secret of a happy marriage is, but that's not the way she feels about it. She knows now that when you don't lose yourself in the bargain, you find you have double the love you started with, and that's one recipe that can't be tampered with.

The only way to fight evil is with joy

I hope you're happy, she said to Mrs. James. Happiness is for fools. Helena James shrugged. So I wish that for you.

I was so unaccustomed to such emotions it took some time before I realized I was happy.

It was a moment made of glass, this happiness; it was the easiest thing in the world to break. Every minute was a world, every hour a universe.

Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever.