Quotes About Happiness

one louing howre For many yeares of sorrow can dispence: A dram of sweet is worth a pound of sowre

Then came October full of merry glee . . .

So all we knowOf what they do aboveIs that they happy are, and that they love.

Where is Prince Charming? What ever happened to happily ever after? Why is it that a man who is unhappy with a woman--a man who may neglect, abuse or abandon her--cannot bear to see her happy alone or with someone else? That manner of macho is decidedly unattractive.

I shall think of you Whenever I am most happy, whenever I am Most sad, whenever I see a beautiful thing. You are a burning lamp to me, a flame The wind cannot blow out, and I shall hold you High in my hand against whatever darkness.

I would I were alive again To kiss the fingers of the rain, To drink into my eyes the shine Of every slanting silver line, To catch the freshened, fragrant breeze From drenched and dripping apple-trees. For soon the shower will be done, And then the broad face of the sun Will laugh above the rain-soaked earth Until the world with answering mirth Shakes joyously, and each round drop Rolls twinkling, from its grass-blade top.

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.

Eran días de irresponsable plenitud, de felicidad imperceptible.

Ningún amor nos garantiza la victoria, ni los campeonatos. Si vienen, que vengan. Felices de nosotros. Pero el fútbol no se trata de ganar. Porque por algo se parece tanto a vivir, a fin de cuentas.

A great thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.

A drink a day keeps the shrink away.

Life's a dog and then you die? No no. Life is a joyous dance through daffodils beneath cerulean blue skies and then, then what? I forget what happens next." -A Fool's Progress

Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.

Wherever two human beings are alive, together, and happy, there is the center of the world.

Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit. I

Whatever the cost, however financed, the benefits for park visitors in health and happiness--virtues unknown to statisticians--would be immeasurable.

Sadly, many people spend their entire lives focusing on the wrong questions. They may pursue money, when they really want happiness. They may pursue the respect of people whose favor is really not worthy of being sought.

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

No happiness without order, no order without authority, no authority without unity.

Happiness is the end at which they aim, not as the excitement of a moment, but as the prevailing condition of the entire existence; and regard for the happiness of each other is evinced by the exquisite amenity of their manners.

In a moment there often dwells the sense of eternity; for when profoundly happy, we know that it is impossible to die. Whenever the soul feels itself, it feels everlasting life.

I have grown calm and unrepining with years; and, if I am now shrinking from men, I have derived at least this advantage from the loneliness first made habitual by regret; that while I feel increased benevolence to others, I have learned to look for happiness only in myself.

I felt as if I could ride the bus through eternity and be happy.

I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check.