Quotes About Happiness

Everything is okay. These will be very merry noodles.

With penetrating insight, the mystics will tell us that when we have a desire for a certain thing, a certain experience, and we fulfill that desire, the happiness we feel is not something given by that thing or experience; it is due to having no craving for a little while.

Past and future, those twin burdens, fall away, and here, in the present moment, we are free to love unconditionally, wholly.

All that you used to avoid will turn itself to great sweetness and exceeding joy.

Whatever they desire, the object of that desire arises from the power of their own thoughts; they have it and are happy.

To find someone to giggle with I place just below finding someone to flirt with and just above the ability to knit.

It seems to me they're not really happy unless they're at the same time on public display and at their worst.

No man is blest who does not think it so.

Will pain not be conquered by reason, when it is defeated by a smile?

HSPs have evolved so that we especially relish a good outcome and figure out more than others how to make it happen. I imagine that we can plan an especially good birthday celebration, anticipating the happiness it will bring.

Children seem to thrive when their caretakers are sensitive. And I have met many highly sensitive caretakers who were at their happiest tending their children or the children of others.

Would you rather be a happy pig or an unhappy human?

Now we are free to come and go as we please, not in sorrow but in laughter.

May Ted and Josie continue to give, forgive, and receive more joy with each passing day. May they have the love of their family, the support of their friends, long life, good health, and everlasting love.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of troubles

At first a woman doesn't want anything but a husband, but just as soon as she gets one, she wants everything else in the world.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

True life lies in laughter, love and work.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.