Quotes About Emotions

Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real.

If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

You never see the stock called Happiness quoted on the exchange.

Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?

We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.

I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.

As soon as you recognize that you are able to control your thoughts, happiness will come within your reach.

Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.

Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.

I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.

Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.

May your happiest days of the past be your saddest days of your future.

Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.

Sometimes loving each other isn't enough. You have to be responsible for your own happiness. You can't stay in a relationship because you're afraid of the unknown.

Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind.

Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.

It is God's giving if we laugh or weep.

We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves

Pain and happiness are simply conditions of the ego. Forget the ego.

We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.

No being can make another one happy.

When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.

We have to go. I'm almost happy here.