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Quotes About Happiness

Le bon Dieu l'a fait expres pour vous donner plaisir.
~ Roger Steer
I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.
~ Roger Waters
Unable to live a life with joy and freedom in it, some people try to snuff out whatever other expressions of joy and freedom they see around them. If you can't have a soul yourself, some people seem to think, then destroy those who do have souls.
~ Roger Welsch
But nobody ever forgot anything, not really, though sometimes they pretended, when it suited them. Memories were permanent. Sorrowful ones remained sad even with the passing of time, yet happy ones could never be recreated - not with the same joy. Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.
~ Rohinton Mistry
Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.
~ Rohinton Mistry
If time were a bolt of cloth," said Om, "I would cut out all the bad parts. Snip out the scary nights and stitch together the good parts, to make time bearable. Then I could wear it like a coat, always live happily.
~ Rohinton Mistry
She knows she has treated Jerry cruelly at times, but she's lost respect for him because, as she states, "He's always there and just keeps coming back. What is the matter with him?" She's just met someone more intriguing at her Twelve Step meeting, and after all, Jerry will be much happier without her.
~ Rokelle Lerner
Other people aren't like me in the slightest, I find. I admit though I prefer to know they are happy, just to be on the safe side. If not, they can be dangerous. I don't like seeing their blood, not at all, nor their guts, all that disgusts me. And if anyone deserves pity, it's me. The others will have to manage by themselves. They weren't any worse off before I was born, and they won't be any better off after I'm dead.
~ Roland Topor
the Buddha whimsically pointed out that seeking happiness in one's material desires is as absurd as "suffering because a banana tree will not bear mangoes.
~ Rolf Potts
Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
~ Rollo May
A smile costs about $240.
~ Roma Downey
Szcz??cie dla mnie to brak l?ku.
~ Roma Ligocka
Ma io non ci tengo tanto a essere felice, preferisco ancora la vita. La felicità è una bella schifezza e una carogna e bisognerebbe insegnarle a vivere. Non siamo della stessa razza, io e lei, e a me non me ne frega niente.
~ Romain Gary
Perhaps, there was something missing in me, a lack of empathy without which even love and happiness are merely a part of that struggle toward championship.
~ Romain Gary
At the darkest moments of the war, in the thick of the battle, I always faced peril with a feeling of invincibility. Nothing could happen to me because I was her happy ending.
~ Romain Gary
Si on ne pouvait pas acheter de l'amour avec de l'argent, l'amour perdrait beaucoup de sa valeur et l'argent aussi.
~ Romain Gary
And I found myself falling off asleep, because in that half-awake state, one's sensibilities are blunted and happiness can still hover nearby...
~ Romain Gary
Laura is adorable, father. But she is made for enjoyment of life, for gaiety, happiness. You must realize that these are not the qualities upon which one can found a family...
~ Romain Gary
I was thinking of the new future that our Communist science is opening to us," he said. "Our people are fully aware of that," Dr. Han Tse said rapidly. "Ever since we exploded our first bomb there has been happiness and rejoicing everywhere.
~ Romain Gary
Chère Méditerranée ! Que ta sagesse latine, si douce à la vie, me fut donc clémente et amicale, et avec quelle indulgence ton vieux regard amusé s'est posé sur mon front d'adolescent ! Je reviens toujours à ton bord, avec les barques qui ramènent le couchant dans leurs filets. J'ai été heureux sur ces galets.
~ Romain Gary
At the darkest moments of the war, in the thick of the bat- tle, I always faced peril with a feeling of invincibility. Nothing could happen to me because was her happy ending.
~ Romain Gary
nors beveik vis? m?s? šiandien jau neb?ra gyv?, mes likome linksmi ir dažnai susitinkame gyvi jaun? mus supan?i? žmoni? žvilgsniuose.
~ Romain Gary
J'étais tellement heureux que je voulais mourir parce que le bonheur il faut le saisir pendant qu'il est là.
~ Romain Gary
h?nh phúc là cái gì Ä'ó có th? ??t tá»›i, ch? c?n tìm th?y thiên hướng sâu xa trong mình r?i h?t lòng vá»›i nh?ng gì mình thích, hoàn toàn quên c? b?n thân.
~ Romain Gary