Quotes About Happiness

La felicità della vita è fatta di frazioni infinitesimali: di piccole elemosine, presto dimenticate, di un bacio, di un sorriso, di uno sguardo gentile, di un complimento fatto col cuore.

La jeunesse contemple le Bonheur qui scintille loin devant elle – l'âge contemple le Bonheur qui scintille loin derrière lui. C'est le Bonheur de l'âge que de contempler a posteriori le Bonheur de la Jeunesse; et faute d'espérer, nous nous souvenons avec plaisir que nous avons espéré.

We all know people who are stimulating, fun, easygoing, and enjoyable to be with. When we're with them, we feel better about ourselves, and when we leave them, we feel satisfied, as if we've been given something to take with us. These are the energy boosters of the world—they send out "happy signals" because they're happy with themselves.

He braced himself for happiness like he'd never known in his entire life.

In reality happiness is a state of mind - it is an experience

Negative thoughts and emotions are very powerful and prevent us from living in the present moment - they literally steal away our precious time.

She wasn't any bigger than a minute and had hair like wild gold, and she was always merry as a marriage bell.

I told him I was so happy that I had nothing else to pray for. 'Why,'says I, I've got prayers to sell.

You bite the bullet and get on with it. One can't expect to be happy all the time ... You expect to be happy, as if it's a right. It's not a right. It's a bonus. The cherry on the cake.

El amor es como una borrachera. Cuando uno tiene la botella al lado se siente feliz. Pero luego se acaba, uno se duerme y al otro día se despierta con dolor. Después uno promete no volver a tomar... ¿Todavía la quiere?

Al escucharlos, Matías se veía a sí mismo compartiendo su aventuras y eso era lo que más le gustaba porque en el momento en el que le parecía formar parte de esa historia, Matías dejaba de estar triste, olvidaba sus preocupaciones y se abandonaba a un mundo en el que al final todo salía bien.

You can kill joy by not looking happy enough.

What does it mean to redirect children out of fear that they would be unhappy?

To want happiness for a child can be to want to straighten the child out.

Translation: happiness becomes proximity to whiteness. Camel Gupta (2014) notes how it is sometimes assumed that brown queers and trans folk are rescued from unhappy brown families by happy white queer and trans communities. We are not a rescue mission. But when you deviate, they celebrate. Even happy brown queers would become unhappy at this point.

You can kill joy by not looking happy enough. If

Suddenly I think that if I must retire from city life I might just as well live in France, where I would be happy, and I put the thought away as a private dream. - Elizabeth Pepys

Happiness is the temporary result of denying the knowledge one already has.

People thought money would make them happy. But money was the consolation prize in life. Money was what you had left to dream for when all the other dreams died. Money was what would keep you going when nothing else could delight you again.

The thought has cheered me, and I'd like to hang onto that. Must protect my little pockets of happiness.

They grew fat and happy--the horses, not the children, or Marlena for that matter.

Must protect my little pockets of happiness.

Love is just a word we use to describe what boils down to a selfish and temporary state of happiness.

The American dream is kind of stupid, anyway. Slave ninety percent of your life so that you can spend the last ten percent of it doing nothing? And there's no guarantee you even make it far enough to enjoy the fruits of your labor. Look at the state of the world. At this rate it's all going to implode any second, anyway, and you could...die unexpectedly. So you should do what makes you happy.