Happiness Quotes

right in this moment, I can´t even remember what unhappy feels like.

I may never be happy, but tonight I am content.

It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering

I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.

If everything really does get better, the way everyone claims, then happiness should be graphable. But that's crap, because better isn't quantifiable.

No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.

Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.

It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.

She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.

when he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth.

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

I was happy anywhere I could see the ocean.

It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness.

A piece of happiness should never be taken as due.

Clearly the secret of happiness...is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping.

one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.

I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.

Work harder to appreciate your ordinary day.

Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold of all the pain and snuff it out.

Talking about someone who makes you happy actually makes you happy.

The devil's happy when the critics run you off.

How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.

The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not.

Happiness, it has been observed, is best achieved by those who have been most unhappy heretofore.

The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality.

Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.

... too much brooding, not enough doing.

Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.

I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.

he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with. i have to believe that’s a sign.

One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.

He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.

My happiness has to come from within myself or it is too fragile a thing to be of any use to me and too much of a burden to benefit any of my loved ones.

And all the best words together couldn't hold the happiness.

And hard times are good in their own way, too. Because the only way you can achieve true happiness is if you experience true sadness as well. It's all about light and shade. Balance.

But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.

Whoever said happiness needs a plan?

Happy are those who evolve from within.

It was always a relief when she came home to him. Like water or food. Like music or that moment when you cut yourself with a knife and squeeze the skin and no blood oozes out.

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

You need to figure out what you want, Josh. If that means you need to swim against the tide to get it, at least youre aiming for something that could make you very happy.

Happiness is a strange thing. It is something I tend to recognize only after it has passed, when I realize I miss it.

I think instead [of happiness] we should be working for contentment... an inner sense of fulfillment that's relatively independent of external circumstances.

One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.

Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.

You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does

We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated.

Unhappiness is caused when we cannot let go of our memories.

Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.