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Quotes About Happiness

If you want to be happy, never ask for the gift of discernment.
~ Lyle W. Dorsett
There will always be people who are better off or who get good jobs or who marry well- whatever that means. We should be happy with what we've got.
~ Lyn Andrews
Don't let happiness slip through your fingers because of old angers and mistakes.
~ Lyn Denison
clear air and smiled, his perfect face softening as he
~ Lynda La Plante
Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts sceptres in their hands or miters on their heads, shifts the scene of pleasure with endless variety, bids all the forms of beauty sparkle before them, and gluts them with every change of visionary luxury.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Money is not the secret to happiness
~ Lynsay Sands
If you are afraid, or if you feel hurt by something, I want you to tell me, and between the two of us we shall do whatever it takes to see you are happy.
~ Lynsay Sands
Have you ever noticed how when you're happy, time seems to pass by fast, while when you're miserable it goes real slow? Life would have been a blink with you whether it lasted a millennium or a month
~ Lynsay Sands
Your face is lined with beauty from laughter and tears
~ Lynsay Sands
One piece of cake in your life is better than never having any.
~ Lynsay Sands
One has a few moments that are tolerable--one breathes,as it were,again;one remembers things,but one hardly hopes.I hope for the New Age-that is all-which will cure all our woes,and give us new ones,and make us happy enough for death....
~ Lytton Strachey
As I grow through love, so grows my joy, ever more present, ever more constant.
~ M. Scott Peck
but personally if I never drink another crocodile pee I shall be a happy man.' 'Crocodile pee?' 'I always assumed that that was the main ingredient in Gatorade, but I may be wrong.
~ M.J. Trow
It takes a lot of courage to be happy.
~ Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
He was happy because, after such a long study, experimentation, and struggle, he could at last affirm the ultimate truth: there never were and never would be any madmen in Itaguai or anywhere else.
~ Machado de Assis
A eternidade tem as suas pêndulas; nem por não acabar nunca deixa de querer saber a duração das felicidades e dos suplícios.
~ Machado de Assis
Digam o que quiserem dizer os hipocondríacos: a vida é uma coisa doce.
~ Machado de Assis
Then I pondered that tight boots are one of the greatest blessings on earth, for by causing one's feet to hurt, they make way for the pleasure of taking them off. Mortify your feet, wretch, then unmortify them, and there you have cheap happiness, befitting both shoemakers and Epicurus.
~ Machado de Assis
Recusa ser minha mulher? - Essa seria a minha felicidade; mas quisera sê-lo com honra. - Que mais honra? - Um casamento clandestino não nos ficaria bem. Se ambos fôssemos pobres ou ricos, sim; mas a desigualdade das nossas fortunas... - Oh! não faças essa consideração. - É essencial.
~ Machado de Assis
CAPÍTULO C   "TU SERÁS FELIZ, BENTINHO"   No quarto, desfazendo a mala e tirando a carta de bacharel de dentro da lata, ia pensando na felicidade e na glória.
~ Machado de Assis
São como fotografias instantâneas da felicidade.
~ Machado de Assis
Era muita felicidade para uma só hora. Um beijo e férias!
~ Machado de Assis
Creiam-me, o menos mau é recordar; ninguém se fie da felicidade presente; há nela uma gota da baba de Caim. Corrido o tempo e cessado o espasmo, então sim, então talvez se pode gozar deveras, porque entre uma e outra dessas duas ilusões, melhor é a que se gosta sem doer.
~ Machado de Assis
Os bons amores são cheios de felicidade, porque têm a virtude de não alçarem olhos para as estrelas do céu; contentam-se com ceias à meia-noite e alguns passeios a cavalo ou por mar. (Linha reta e linha curva)
~ Machado de Assis