Quotes About Happiness

What a happiness it would be to cry.

Do you think we make sad things into songs in order to hold on to the sadness or to banish it—I think it is to banish the sadness. So then if you write a happy song, is it not sadder than a sad song because by making it you have banished your own happiness into a song?

It's this feeling that you want to love strangers, that you want to kiss the man at the post office, or the woman at the dry cleaners - you want to wrap you arms around life, life itself, but you can't and this feeling wells up in you, and there is nowhere to put this great happiness - and you're floating - and then you fall down and become unbearably sad. And you have to go lie down on the couch.

That story is proof of the theorem that then as today in Chicago, the mysterious equation of whiskey plus music equals what can only be called happiness.

By journey's end the brides were much better acquainted with their grooms and more or less pleased with the matches. Sybil Bingham wrote in her diary, thanking God for answering her prayer for filling the void with a husband like Hiram, a treasure rich and undeserved. Having read his insufferable memoir, A Residence of Twenty-one Years in the Sandwich Islands, all I can say is: I'm happy for her?

If this fails to convince, I being out my secret weapon, announcing with portentous deliberation that Barbara. Damn. Walters. Does. Not. Drive. Heard of her? This sort of accusatory conversion of course almost never goes down with native New Yorkers, people who, like Barbara Walters, live in that barbaric third world country that is Manhattan, and thus have yet to hear of newfangled American Advances like automobiles, happiness, and yards.

Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship. So when my friends Joel and Stephen and I play hooky from our jobs in the middle of the afternoon to play Pop-A-Shot in a room full of children, I like to think we are not procrastinators; we are patriots pursuing happiness.

The happiness that follows sadness is never the same as that which came before it.

joie de vivre.

Has our enslavement to dopamine—to the instant hits of validation that come with a well-crafted tweet or Snapchat streak—made us happier? I suspect it has simply made us less unhappy, or rather less aware of our unhappiness, and that our phones are merely new and powerful antidepressants of a non-pharmaceutical variety

How lucky am I to be right here, How lucky am I indeed. A lifetime of love and song and pie, What more could a person need?

Not for us the difficult poses, not for us the no-pain-no-gain, OK? Because to be truly happy you do not need to be a pretzel, you just need to walk without creaking.

Annie would no sooner have ridden with their children on a motorbike than left them overnight in a casino parking lot, but the way a mother feels seeing her babies erupt in unbridled joy? The same, everywhere.

You do not need to worry about being sure right now,' she said. 'You need to laugh, that is all. Just laugh. We will help you.

Now is the moment to live fully, and live in happiness. If there is no happiness today, how can you expect to be happy tomorrow?

Ego means I am this body mind... Clarity realise I am That Whereas in real Just awareness is... Be Happy and keep smiling...

Remaining aware of awareness, witnessing it thru every experience within without one, is the way and the goal both... Be Happy and keep smiling...

To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.

If energy is delight and exuberance is beauty, the manic depressive knows more about life than anyone else. Didn't Freud say happiness was nothing more than the remission of pain? So, the more pain, the intenser the happiness.

He looked down through the green transparency to the stony bottom webbed with golden lines. Never still. If his soul could cast a reflection so briljant, and so intensely sweet, he might beg God to make such use of him. But that would be too childish. The actual sphere is not clear like this, but turbulent, angry. A vast human action is going on. Death watches. So if you have some happiness, conceal it. And when your heart is full, keep your mouth shut also.

Stvarna zemaljska kugla nije tako bistra, nego zamu?ena, uzburkana. Odvija se golema ljudska djelatnost. Smrt vreba. Zato, ako osje?aš malo sre?e, sakrij je. A kad ti je srce puno, šuti isto tako.

Sre?a je besmislen pa ?ak i škodljiv pojam ako nije doista sveobuhvatna...

Tko traži sre?u - morao bi biti spreman na loš ishod.

Happiness can only be found if you free yourself of all other distractions.