Quotes About Happiness

Comprende tu oscuridad, y ésta se desvanecerá; entonces sabrás lo que es la luz. Comprende tu pesadilla como tal pesadilla, y ésta cesará; entonces despertarás a la realidad. Comprende tus falsas creencias, y éstas perderán fuerza; entonces conocerás el sabor de la felicidad.

Lo que te hace feliz o desdichado no es el mundo ni las personas que te rodean, sino los pensamientos que albergas en tu mente.

Is she happy? For portions of every day, she is happy.

Marie-Laure smiles, and he laughs a pure, contagious laugh, one she will try to remember all her life, father and daughter turning in circles on the sidewalk in front of their apartment house, laughing together while snow sifts through the branches above.

he laughs a pure, contagious laugh, one she will try to remember all her life

One step behind her, her father tilts his head up and gives the sky a huge smile. Marie-Laure knows this even though her back is to him, even though he says nothing, even though she is blind - Papa's thick wet hair is wet from the snow and standing in a dozen angles off his head, and his scarf is draped asymmetrically over his shoulders, and he's beaming up at the falling snow (41).

For portions of every day, she is happy.

Joy is not a strong enough word.

The girl climbs into the swing and pendulums back and forth, pumping her legs, and watching her opens some valve in Werner's soul. This is life, he thinks, this is why we live, to play like this on a day when winter is finally releasing its grip.

What you already have is better than what you so desperately seek.

She was learning that in her life everything--health, happiness, even love--was subject to the landscape; the weathers of the world were inseparable from the weathers of her soul.

Our freedom is a personal freedom only when, in it and through it, our persons may flourish, but that is so only in love.

The sage's point was that life was uncertain and no one should be counted happy till the day of his death.

we have learned from them the beginnings of life and have gained the power not only to live happily but also to die with a better hope.

virtue outweighs everything and even if the good man is not supremely happy, he is on balance happy.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.

belief that has become the main cause of her illness, Mr Holmes. As I told your colleague, I have tasted every single morsel that has passed her lips with no ill-effect at all. I do not understand the curse that has come upon me. Before I met you, I was a happy man.' 'And hope to be again, I am sure.' We climbed back up to the attic room that I had been in before. As we arrived at the doorway

She never murdered anyone. She didn't want to destroy the world. But I think there's another sort of evil that is often overlooked ... and it is this. Granny never did anything to help anyone else. She was rich and healthy (she lived into her nineties) but she was utterly selfish and complained all the time. ... As far as I know, she never tried to make anyone happy ... and if you ask me, evil is a perfectly reasonable description of someone like that.

I do not know what has brought you here or how you have been driven to an action as extreme as the one you are now contemplating,' he said. 'You must be very unhappy. Of that I am sure. Will you believe me if I say that no matter how bad things may appear, they will be better tomorrow if you allow tomorrow to do its work? That is the way of things, Miss Mitchell, and I am the living proof of it.

The fact is, you're as bad as some of those scum journalists who reported it. Stephanie was a lovely girl, lovely, and for a time we were happy together. But she was a mess. She drank and she took recreational drugs and in the end she died in Barbados. But I wasn't even on the boat when it happened.

The most important things in life aren't things.

Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everyone's heart