Quotes About Happiness

I've taken the liberty of giving us a full moon. I've arranged for all stoplights to stay green. I've made some phone calls to make sure you keep smiling. I've reserved the space underneath our feet. I've gone all out for you, so why don't you go with me?

Ik vind het vervelend dat ik het je moet vertellen, maar je zult nooit gelukkig worden. Ik wil je geen pijn doen door dit te zeggen. Ik zeg het omdat ik het wel zo eerlijk vind om open kaart te spelen voor we beginnen. Ik hoop dat je dat waardeert, want vanaf nu zal niemand meer open of eerlijk tegen je zijn. Dus nogmaals, ik zeg het je vooraf maar: je zult nooit gelukkig worden. Ik heb het voor je opgeschreven. Heel graag gedaan.

I love meeting famous people. I'm even happy just looking at them.

I turned my face away. She should not act thus. She ought not to excite my imagination with such displays of heavenly innocence and happiness, nor awaken my heart from its slumbers, in which it dreams of the worthlessness of life!

Joy, thou spark from Heav'n immortal,Daughter of Elysium!Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancingGoddess, to thy shrine we come.Thy sweet magic brings togetherWhat stern Custom spreads afar;All men become brothersWhere thy happy wing-beats are.

Pain is short, and joy is eternal.

By mere burial man arrives not at bliss and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite.

The more you think life is about having stuff and superiority and showing it off, the more unhappy, and the more depressed and anxious, you will be.

How do we start to rebuild a society where we don't feel so alone and afraid, and where we can form healthier bonds? How do we build a society where we look for happiness in one another rather than in consumption?

Materialistic people, who think happiness comes from accumulating stuff and a superior status, had much higher levels of depression and anxiety.

In general, we want to take the easy way out, but what makes us happy is doing the thing that's a little bit difficult. What's happening with our cellphones is that we put a thing in our pocket that's with us all the time that always offers an easy thing to do, rather than the important thing.

Materialism is KFC for the soul.

The question] is no longer: How do we stop addiction through threats and force, and scare people away from drugs in the first place? It becomes: How do we start to rebuild a society where we can form healthier bonds? How do we build a society where we look for happiness in one another rather than consumption?

When the results came back and were all calculated out, Tim was struck by the results: materialistic people, who think happiness comes from accumulating stuff and a superior status, had much higher levels of depression and anxiety.

Nearly twice as many people hate their jobs as love their jobs.

The concept of "work hours" is vanishing for most people—so this thing that 87 percent of us don't enjoy is spreading over more and more of our lives.

For millennia, humans have talked about something called the Golden Rule. It's the idea that you should do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Tim, I think, has discovered something we should call the I-Want-Golden-Things Rule.17 The more you think life is about having stuff and superiority and showing it off, the more unhappy, and the more depressed and anxious, you will be.

To have a good life, it is not enough to remove what is wrong with it," Mihaly has explained. "We also need a positive goal; otherwise why keep going?

In general, we want to take the easy way out, but what makes us happy is doing the thing that's a little bit difficult.

If your environment is like Rat Park—a safe, happy community with lots of healthy bonds and pleasurable things to do—you will not be especially vulnerable to addiction. If your environment is like the rat cages—where you feel alone, powerless and purposeless—you will be.

Who does not love wine, women, and songRemains a fool his whole life long.

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

Paradise is always where love dwells.

Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.