Quotes About Happiness

Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.

Let the sun shine in.

All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming — a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness.

I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.

If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars.

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.

How intolerable people are sometimes who are happy and successful in everything.

La felicidad no es una estación a la que se llega, sino una manera de viajar. MARGARET LEE RUNBECK

As the Dauphine stepped out of her carriage on to the ceremonial carpet that had been laid down, it was the Duc de Choiseul who was given the privilege of the first salute. Presented with the Duc by Prince Starhemberg, Marie Antoinette exclaimed: 'I shall never forget that you are responsible for my happiness!

It's not by pursuing but by abandoning our desires that real satisfaction can be found.

In the Dhammap?da, happiness and unhappiness are said to originate in the mind: 'Speak or act with a corrupted mind, And suffering follows As the wagon wheel follows the hoof of the ox. … Speak or act with a peaceful mind, And happiness follows Like a never-departing shadow.

As long as you're better at it than skating...," Anna said and stood up too. She wanted to say more, but that wasn't possible because he was kissing her. Reasonable Anna wanted to draw back the danger of touch. But unreasonable Anna welcomed the kiss like happiness. Maybe, she thought, it's better to take these moments when you get them - there might not be too many in life.

Sometimes I can't tell the difference anymore, between beauty and desolation. Isn't that weird? Sometimes I don't even know if I'm extremely happy or extremely sad. It happens a lot when I think of you.

Un helado es un almuerzo maravilloso cuando se está de celebración.

For nothing bestializes a being like the taste for eternal happiness, the search for eternal happiness at any price, and mademoiselle Lucifer is that slut who never wanted to abandon eternal happiness.

It was with characteristic foresight that George Washington declared: "I have always been persuaded, that the stability and success of the National Government and consequently the happiness of the people of the United States, would depend, in a considerable degree, on the interpretation and execution of its laws.

Alegremente" es la palabra de la casa. Estáis envenenados de alegría. Y no era eso lo que pensaba yo encontrar aquí. Creí que encontraría... a mis verdaderos compañeros, no a unos ilusos».

Pero si tu tristeza y la mía se unen, tal vez logremos una extraña felicidad.

Un amor como el mío es un don de la vida. Todos, aun a su pesar, tendrían que haberme dado la enhorabuena... Pero estos amores son aborrecidos, anatematizados, y, aunque no se diga (porque la envidia pregona una insuficiencia), envidiados también. El mundo no ha sido hecho por los felices ni para los felices.

Dicen los orientales que los ruidos más gratos de esta vida son el tintineo de las monedas de oro, el canto de un surtidor y la voz de quien se aman...