Quotes About Happiness

And it is almost impossible to describe happiness because it is the absence of pain, of loneliness, of despair, yet it is infinitely more than just an absence of anything. It resides in small moments, moments that lose their power in the telling but pin themselves fast to our hearts.

W]hen she was dying she asked me to promise never to leave Father. I couldn't refuse. It was the last thing she said. She was worried over what would happen to him. So you see!' 'How could she condemn you to such a life?' 'Well, you see, she had a rather gloomy idea of life. She thought we are all born to suffer and the more we suffer now the less we shall hereafter. She thought it was wrong to be happy. I expect she worked all that out because she was married to Father.' (116)

MYSELF: You have never understood. My integrity means more to me than happiness. CHRISTINA: You have none. There is no such thing. You are not a whole person. Nobody is. We are members one of another. An arm has no integrity if it is amputated. It is nothing unless it is part of a body, with a heart to pump the blood through it and a brain to guide it. You have no more integrity than a severed arm might have.

Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.

He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.

And that lack of fear has gotten me into a lot of trouble and cost me a lot of happiness. God intended women to be timid frightened creatures and there's something unnatural about a woman who isn't afraid... Scarlett, always save something to fear—even as you save something to love...

They were the eyes of a happy woman, a woman around whom storms might blow without ever ruffling the serene core of her being.

Money can't buy everything." "Someone must have told you that. You'd never think of such a platitude all by yourself. What can't it buy?" "Oh, well, I don't know—not happiness or love, anyway." "Generally it can. And when it can't, it can buy some of the most remarkable substitutes.

This is what happens when you look back to happiness, this pain, this heart-break, this discontent

Always providing you have enough courage—or money—you can do without a reputation. Money can't buy everything. Someone must have told you that. You'd never think of such a platitude all by yourself. What can't it buy? Oh, well, I don't know—not happiness or love, anyway. Generally it can. And when it can't, it can buy some of the most remarkable substitutes.

Like must marry like or there'll be no happiness.

I want my girl to be happy and you wouldn't be happy with him." "Oh, I would! I would!" "That you would not, daughter. Only when like marries like can there be any happiness.

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness?

Technology changes the medium. I grew up on watching a box in my living room that made my parents happy. After something is gone, the dust will settle and I'll see what's next.

It's funny how one life-changing event could make you forget what happiness felt like.

There is no one Reality, There is only one's Perception.Love Never Fails.keep doing The Happy Dance

As for me I will follow the path of the pink bunnies.

Happiness is attained by three things: being patient when tested, being thankful when receiving a blessing, and being repentant upon sinning.

The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.

I'm the happiest I've been in a while.. So blessed and thankful for the future, for release and to finally be happy for those I loved.

The more thankful you are, the happier you will be!