Quotes About Happiness

If you are satisfied, you bring your satisfaction to the moment and fill the circumstances of your life with that satisfaction. If you are dissatisfied, however, no one and nothing can produce contentment for you.

The happier we are, the more easily we draw to us everything we want. Every moment of every day, we are sending out energetic signals that are felt by the people around us. This explains why a desperate person draws to himself or herself more desperation, while a person who is already fulfilled becomes a magnet for greater fulfillment.

Likevel har jeg alltid insistert på å ha hatt en løkkelig barndom – jeg tør faen ikke annet. Hvis jeg først sku åpna døra inn til hemmelighetenes kott, er jeg redd det ville velta ut mange øgler og slimete padder – og det har jeg pokker ikke mot til.

I had to learn that I knew nothing. I also had to learn that it was okay to think for myself and that my happiness, my true salvation, was not dependent on the approval of others. --Gregory Michael Brewer

God, I'm a girl with a cursed fate. I've fallen in love with a boy and I want to be happy.

Ci dicono che se adesso ci impegniamo, il nostro futuro sarà felice... ma non esiste una garanzia del genere. Quindi vivi come più ti piace, senza pretendere di essere ciò che non puoi

I'll never believe that money is everything.

Desire persuades us that if only we have a pleasant breath or if only we have that spacious feeling we had earlier, then we would be happy. But desire is insatiable. As soon as we get the object or experience we have been longing for, we move on to another desire, because the more we pursue desire, the more desire we experience.

May I take refuge in my capacity to awaken. May I take refuge in the ways of living that bring about my freedom and happiness. May I feel open to all those who can support me on this path of freedom.

Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvelous effects than those of wine. Look! when a man drinks, he is rich, everything he touches succeeds, he gains lawsuits, is happy and helps his friends. Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea.

It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.

When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends.Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

One's country is wherever one does well.

Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

One swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.

Happiness is a thing which calls for honor rather than for praise.

For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.

Wealth is clearly not the absolute good of which we are in search, for it is a utility, and only desirable as a means.