Quotes About Happiness

Três meses, três minutos! Eis toda a verdade da vida. Se os pusessem sobre uma grelha, como São Lourenço, cinco minutos eram cinco meses. E ainda se fala em tempo! Há lá tempo! O tempo está nas nossas impressões. Há meses para os infelizes e minutos para os venturosos!

NO CÉU   Pois sejamos felizes de uma vez, antes que o leitor pegue em si, morto de esperar, e vá espairecer a outra parte; casemo-nos. Foi em 1865, uma tarde de março, por sinal que chovia.

A amizade é o melhor pretexto, até hoje inventado, para que um indivíduo pretenda tomar parte na felicidade de outro.

Amai, rapazes! E, principalmente, amai moças lindas e graciosas; elas dão remédio ao mal, aroma ao infecto, trocam a morte pela vida... Amai, rapazes!

Then I pondered the fact that tight boots are one of the best bits of good fortune on earth, because by making one's feet hurt they give occasion to the pleasure of taking them off. Punish your feet, wretch, then unpunish them and there you have cheap happiness, at the mercy of shoemakers and worthy of Epicurus.'' The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas- Machado de Asis

When neither their property nor their honour is touched the majority of man live content

If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.

A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.

If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time.

Wherever there's laughter, there is heaven.

Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests.

She began to feel the sense of wonderful elation that always came to her when beauty took hold of her and made her forget her fears.

If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.

And joy is always a promise.

There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down.

Our country in general assumes that the pursuit of happiness really means the pursuit of pleasure and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.

It's my worst trouble, getting fond. If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time.

I cannot find it in me to believe that God enjoys long faces and scowls at merriment.

Ah," she said, "that's ever so much better," and took both boots and shook them out over the sink. "My stomach is full and I'm warm inside and out and it's time I went home.

Active happiness is not a common state. Active unhappiness is better than dull days. Katherine was seldom in an intermediate stage.

Ananda: that joy without which the universe will fall apart and collapse.

That joy in existence without which the universe will fall apart and collapse.

I know our world isn't perfect, Charles, but it's better than this. This isn't the only alternative! It can't be!" "Nobody suffers here," Charles intoned. "Nobody is ever unhappy." "But nobody's ever happy, either," Meg said earnestly. "Maybe if you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy. Calvin, I want to go home.

You might call IT the Boss." Then Charles Wallace giggled, a giggle that was the most sinister sound Meg had ever heard. "IT sometimes calls ITself the Happiest Sadist.