Quotes About Happiness

Como dice Octavio Paz, la felicidad es una sillita al sol.

Không h? ghê t?m mà v?i tâm tr?ng h? h?i, Erika nói suy cho cùng b?n ch?t c?a tình yêu c?ng chính là c?c ?i?m c?a s? t?m th??ng.

There is no suffering if you don't want anything.

Quality of life": as if we knew it, and could measure it. I wanted to know what it was: the quality of life.

Why do you look like that? You should be happy. A lot of things can happen in an airplane, at night, thirty thousand feet above the ocean.

One must always be thinking," Isabel told Ralph. "I am not sure it's not a greater happiness to be powerless." And Ralph replied: "For weak people I have no doubt it's a greater happiness.'' It was a confirmation of my own idea of strength—of my determination to be strong.

The supermarket had everything. I had never felt so happy to see Whiskas, the cat food.

She must have been jealous," Zita said. "Of course, I hope she feels more secure now. I've moved on. I have a new boyfriend. I'm happy now." "That's great," I said, recognizing the rule that, once you had a new boyfriend, you were happy.

Deep down I have a talent for well-being. I can feel it.

I don't see Peter," Own said, coming out of the turnstile behind me. But I van was there, reading a paperback novel. The book looked so small in his hands, almost unstable, like it might crumble to dust. He had a tan and looked at once different from my memory and unmistakably himself. I was so happy that the first thing I said to him instead of hello was "Thank you.

Deep down I have a talent for well-being.

We cannot escape the longing, no matter what life we choose. We're either longing for people, places or times gone by, which are essentially the same things: memories. And, whether or not we travel, the older we get, the more memories we collect. Nostalgia is simply the result of aging and liking the life you've lived. Be happy you can feel it—it's a good sign.

There is a strong disposition in youth, from which some individuals never escape, to suppose that everyone else is having a more enjoyable time than we are ourselves;

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

In solitude What happiness? Who can enjoy alone, Or all enjoying what contentment find?' Milton

Our expectation that satisfying intimate relationships should, ideally, provide happiness and that, if they do not, there must be something wrong with those relationships, seems to be exaggerated. . . It may be our idealization of interpersonal relationships in the West that causes marriage, supposedly the most intimate tie, to be so unstable. If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

It is widely believed that interpersonal relationships of an intimate kind are the chief, if not the only, source of human happiness. Yet the lives of creative individuals often seem to run counter to this assumption.

The mind must make its own happiness; any troubles can be endured if the sufferer has resources of his own to sustain him.

It may be our idealization of interpersonal relationships in the West that causes marriage, supposedly the most intimate tie, to be so unstable. If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.