Quotes About Happiness

Be happy--be in the attitude of ever being helpful to others. This will bring that peace within that is the promise from Him.

This is life's sorrow: That one can be happy only where two are; And that our hearts are drawn to stars Which want us not.

I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.

I really thought I could give it up... But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.

Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.

Frankly, I think the chances of having a happy childhood while you're still a kid going through it are pretty slim.

Those years on Marbachweg were among our best times.

Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

I looked at him. Then I turned my face away. Beyond my upset I was flooded by a deep happiness, similar to the one he made me feel when forcing me to surrender to his virility. No one else before him had given me this gratification, but I realised now that the longing to be violated, body and soul, must have always been inside me.

The truly educated man is the man who has learned the duty and responsibility of doing something useful, something helpful, something to make this old world of ours better and a happier place in which to live.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.

In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

With all respect, Sahib, you have little to teach us in strength and toughness. And we do not envy you your restless spirits. Perhaps we are happier than you? But we would like our children to go to school. Of all the things you have, learning is the one we most desire for our children.

For once, he could look back at the past without regret, and at the future without bewilderment. Simply and touchingly, he wrote in his diary: "I have had so much happiness in my life so far that I feel, no matter what sorrows come, the joys will have overbalanced them.

Flourishing is the heart of prospering—engagement, meeting challenges, self-expression, and personal growth.

All that in this delightful garden grows,Should happy be, and have immortal bliss.

Tell her the joyous time will not be stayedUnlesse she do him by the forelock take.

That here on earth is no sure happiness.

It is the mynd, that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happie, rich or poore: For some, that hath abundance at his will, Hath not enough, but wants in greatest store; And other, that hath litle, askes no more, But in that litle is both rich and wise. For wisedome is most riches; fooles therefore They are, which fortunes doe by vowes deuize, Sith each vnto himselfe his life may fortunize.

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.