Quotes About Reflection

Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.

I don't know what I am, but this isn't happiness.

Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.

Happiness is when you see your husband's old girlfriend and she's fatter than you.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it's hard.

I've been writing jokes since I'm fifteen. Not out of happiness, but to go to a different place, because reality wasn't good to me.

It isn't happiness I am concerned with but experience.

There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.

When sadness comes, accept it. Listen to its song. It has something to give to you. It has a gift which no happiness can give to you, only sadness can give it.

The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.

Albums that remind me of my childhood happiness make me incredibly sad now.

Now I'll give you some advice, since you been asking for it. Happiness is like them plants you been yapping about. Sometimes it's growing right in your own backyard and you don't even know it.

It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while.

God's commandments not only reflect His holiness, they promote our happiness.

It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I haved lived on - don't take it from me now

To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

It broke the spell. It's not that I stopped being happy. I was still inexplicably, utterly happy. But suddenly the happiness had implications.

We've developed a very complex filing system for existence. We see things in terms of good or bad. We feel happiness, joy, pain, loss, guilt and remorse.

The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions.

Sitting in stillness has got to be the greatest asset I have in terms of attaining happiness.

Thou shalt ever joy at eventide if thou spend the day fruitfully.

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future.