Quotes About Emotions

This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!

Reality isn't a particularly good guide to human happiness.

Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.

Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.

And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.

Happiness based on reasons is actually another form of misery.

A person can't know what happiness is without experiencing sadness. And I think that's healthy.

We know that happiness is short-lived, that we fail to cherish it when it is within our grasp and value it only when it has vanished forever.

People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

Marriages are more likely to fail when one partner not only does not mirror the other's expressions of happiness, but instead shows expressions of contempt.

Don't underestimate the importance of happiness. As long as you're happy, who cares what you do?

Happiness comes from our response to the conditions of our lives.

Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.

How you feel right now is about equally genetic and circumstantial, but how you will feel on average over the next ten years is fully 80 percent because of your genes.

I was still hesitant to let myself let go, because I still believed in the fragility of happiness.

Happiness does not depend upon a full pocketbook, but upon a mind full of rich thoughts and a heart full of rich emotions.

Happiness has little to do with what is going on around you, and a lot to do with what is going on inside you.

Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness.

Happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.

I'm pretty happy for someone who struggles with happiness.

To let sorrow go his own way one gives happiness a chance

It was almost painful, I thought, to have a heart so swollen with gratitude and what must have been pure, untainted happiness. I wanted to live inside the feeling forever.

Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.