Quotes About Happiness

It turns out the mark of a happy life isn't staying just one step ahead of the grim reaper. It's knowing you're strong.

No one can live your life but you, Maggie. But if you find a way to use your talents to help people I think you'll be happier.

It was a long time before she relaxed and even began to enjoy life. To let herself enjoy life.

You will never be happy, married or single, as long as you cling to this fantasy that some man will rescue you and make you safe and secure. Make yourself safe and secure. It's the only way you'll really feel that way. It's the only way you can really protect your children. In the end you will see that no matter who you're married to, you are responsible for your own happiness or security, two things no one can give you.

go of me. The only way you can honor my memory is with your happiness.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. —VICTOR HUGO

The only thing that could make him happier would be if they could become a real family—husband, wife and kids. This was still in its infancy and Abby needed time. But she liked him, he knew she did. She couldn't keep it secret. She liked him, depended on him, respected him. It was going in the right direction. He

This didn't matter to him—his happiness was complete. She loved him, wanted him. And he would do anything for her. By

When she heard him in the doorway, she looked up from her place on the floor and a coppery curl fell over her forehead. He couldn't help but smile at her—she looked cute as the dickens with her hair piled on top of her head and drowning in his shirt.

There is an antidote to sadness—it is gratitude. There's a great trick to escaping the pain of loss, and that is giving.

I have a theory that life is gathering the raw materials, and when we die, we get to make patterns out of our lives and relive them in whatever order we want. That way I can spend forever repeating the days when I was really happy, and never have to experience any of the sad days. So that's how you live a really great life. You make sure you have enough good days that you want to go back to.

If everything really does get better, the way everyone claims, then happiness should be graphable. You draw up an X axis and a Y axis, where a positive slope represents a positive attitude, plot some points, and there you go. But that's crap, because better isn't quantifiable.

It was like Latham: sometimes the point wasn't being the best, because it didn't mean you had the best life, or the best friends, or the best time.

She stared at me, this wonderful smile rising to her lips, and I don't know that if ever seen someone so beautiful.

Es así como se consigue una vida maravillosa. Debes asegurarte de tener suficientes días buenos que recuperar.

Sadie me sonrió, y yo tuve la sensación de que el universo se sostenía gracias a ella.

IF EVERYTHING REALLY does get better, the way everyone claims, then happiness should be graphable. You draw up an X axis and a Y axis, where a positive slope represents a positive attitude, plot some points, and there you go. But that's crap, because better isn't quantifiable

Sadie smiled at me, and it felt like she was holding the universe together.

Their deep unhappiness comes from the isolation they feel, despite being connected, thanks to smartphone-enabled social networking, to more people than any generation ever has. Smartphone culture has radically increased the social anxiety they experience, as information coming through their phones convinces sensitive teenagers—especially girls—that they are being left out of the more exciting lives others are having.

Man no longer understood himself to be a pilgrim on a meaningful journey with others, but as a tourist who traveled through life according to his own self-designed itinerary, with personal happiness his ultimate goal.

In therapeutic culture, which has everywhere triumphed, the great sin is to stand in the way of the freedom of others to find happiness as they wish. This goes hand in hand with the sexual revolution, which, along with ethnic and gender identity politics, replaced the failed economic class struggle as the utopian focus of the post-1960s radical left.

we should start thinking seriously about why we have become the richest and most free society ever to exist, yet our wealth and personal liberty have bought us so little happiness.

Sex and commerce are fine things, but man cannot live by Viagra and the Dow Jones alone. A life led collecting things and experiences in pursuit of happiness is not necessarily a bad life, but it's not a good life either. Too often, the Democrats act like the Party of Lust, and the Republicans the Party of Greed. Both are deadly sins that eat at the soul.

Theres no misery in not being loved, only in not loving