Quotes About Happiness

I never felt happier, I never understood nature better, even down to the veriest stem or smallest blade of grass; and yet I am unable to express myself: my powers of execution are so weak, everything seems to swim and float before me, so that I cannot make a clear, bold outline. But I fancy I should succeed better if I had some clay or wax to model.

I think you would prefer to be happy in your choice,to make your first marriage be your only marriage." Maria was right,of course. Going from marriage to marriage was not much different than going from man to man. Anastasia,at least,didn't see much difference in the two.She saw love as lasting forever. Anything less could not really be love.

No necesitamos lazos ni bonitos vestidos, tan sólo necesitan encontrar un hogar, y recibir la sonrisa o el abrazo de un ser querido.

What is a friend if not someone you feel close to, someone you like being with, someone you can confide in and share pleasure with. -Jeremy Malory-

But you don't let true happiness slip out of your grasp without one helluva fight.

I never thought I'd say I'm so very glad you're a rogue instead of an angel. But I suppose it's all right as long as you're my rogue - Rebecca -

God certainly knows of some happiness for us which He is going to bring out of the trouble, only we must have patience and not run away. And then all at once something happens and we see clearly ourselves that God has had some good thought in His mind all along; but because we cannot see things beforehand, and only know how dreadfully miserable we are, we think it is always going to be so.

The happiest of all things is when an old friend comes and greets us as in former times; the heart is comforted with the assurance that some day everything that we have loved will be given back

You don't realize that some part of your brain is spinning out little scenarios of how much worse your future will be if you change. This keeps you from growing into a better and happier existence.

Also, as you start to feel better thanks to your diet and exercise program, the positive cycle encourages its own continuation. This

As the great mythologist Joseph Campbell said, follow your bliss and the universe miraculously supports your choices for a happier and healthier way of life. Therefore

If we do not feel grateful for what we already have, what makes us think we would be happy with more?

Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.

When feminist author Shere Hite or columnist Ann Landers reports that a surprisingly high percentage of their respondents are having affairs or would rather not have had children, we should automatically ask ourselves who is most likely to answer these questionnaires: someone having an affair or someone reasonably content, someone exasperated by her kids or someone happy with them.

Yes, there is happiness to be found in the mere contemplation of the deepest mysteries.

'Tis not for mortals always to be blest.

Once a happy old man One can never change the core of things, and light burns you the harder for it.

You bad birds, But God shall not punish you, you Shall be with us in heaven, though less Conscious of your happiness, perhaps, than we. Hell is a not quite satisfactory heaven, probably, But you are the fruit and jewels Of my arrangement . . .

Ninety percent of your long-term happiness is predicted not by the external world, but by the way your brain processes the world." —Shawn Achor, author and happiness researcher

Happiness was different in childhood. It was so much then a matter simply of accumulation, of taking things - new experiences, new emotions - and applying them like so many polished tiles to what would someday be the marvellously finished pavilion of the self.

Freedom all solace to man gives He lives at ease who freely lives.

Freedom all solace to man gives;He lives at ease that freely lives.

I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.