Quotes About Happiness

Nothing!" said Peter. "Begone, dull care! Eructavit cor meum.

Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you-- And if that makes you happy, kid, You'll be the first it ever did.

She dreamed by day of never again putting on tight shoes, of never having to laugh and listen and admire, of never more being a good sport. Never.

She is happy, for she knows That her dust is very pretty

And when it ends, only those places where you have known sorrow are kindly to you. If you revisit the scenes of your happiness, your heart must burst of its agony. And

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

Lasting happiness cannot be found in pursuit of any goal or achievement. It does not reside in fortune or fame. It resides only in the human mind and heart, and it is here that we hope you will find it.

A healthy perspective really is the foundation of joy and happiness, because the way we see the world is the way we experience the world. Changing the way we see the world in turn changes the way we feel and the way we act, which changes the world itself. Or, as the Buddha says in the Dhammapada, With our mind we create our own world.

This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

My capacity for happiness, he added, you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first

Arthur felt happy. He was terribly pleased that the day was for once working out so much according to plan. Only twenty minutes ago he had decided he would go mad, and now here he was already chasing a Chesterfield sofa across the fields of prehistoric Earth.

And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

I'd far rather be happy than right any day. And are you? No. That's where it all falls down, of course. Pity, said Arthur. It sounded like rather a good lifestyle otherwise.

Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I think that the chances of finding out what's actually going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say, Hang the sense of it, and keep yourself busy. I'd much rather be happy than right any day.

Aberystwyth (n.) A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for.

He actually caught himself saying things like Yippee, as he pranced ridiculously round the house.

You're paid a lot and you're not happy, so the first thing you do is buy stuff that you don't want or need—for which you need more money.

Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor – at least no one worth speaking of.

My capacity for happiness,' he added, 'you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first.

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Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.' 'And are you?' 'No. That's where it all falls down, of course.' 'Pity,' said Arthur with sympathy. 'It sounded like quite a good lifestyle otherwise.

Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.