Happiness Quotes

Joy is spiritual and far grittier than happiness, and far more robust.

I'm learning that you have to make time for what's important. You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything.

When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect

Is this freedom? Is it happiness? I don't know. I don't care anymore. It is different--it is being alive.

Happiness is found when no one is looking

This is the language of the world before—a world of chaos and confusion and happiness and despair—before the blitz turned streets to grids, cities to prisons, and hearts to dust.

What if happiness is in fact more about remembering who we are, rather than attempting to change anything or anyone at all?

The paradox of acceptance: When our mind becomes less attached and dependent on things being a certain way our happiness in life dramatically improves.

Happiness is more about removing the blocks to Love and remembering who you are than changing your situation or another person.

David will never go to space again. I'm glad.What did it gain the McQuarries? What has it ever gained men? Have men ever brought back more happiness from the stars? Will they ever?

There was always some germ of joy, some little paramecium of happiness wriggling around, waiting for a chance to get out.

I value my health and my happiness. And I've realized exercise can give me both of those things.

Happiness, in the ancient, noble sense, means self-fulfillment—and is given to those who use to the fullest whatever talents God … bestowed upon them.

People are always happy where there is love, because their happiness in in themselves.

The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.

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

No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly - one thing, her happiness and her unhappiness.

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

A person cannot grow up through happiness. Happiness makes a person shallow. It is only through suffering that we grow up, transform, and come to a better understanding of life.

But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way

Fame is bought by happiness.

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty--to the poor and humble.

Christophe's smile was a marvel of edged sweetness. When he grinned like that he looked handsomer than ever, the hint of danger just about threatening to stop a girl's heart.

Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.

Was the period of happiness worth the unhappiness that followed a breakup? Most people seemed to think so, because they got on the love train time and time again.

The best thing a mother can give her child is a happy and fulfilled mom. There are many paths to happiness and fulfillment--follow your heart and choose your own way.

Can't you just tell me now?" "No, I need someone to eat with." A slight smile rose to my lips. "Am I supposed to believe that I'm your only option?" "No. But you're my favorite option.

I suppose now I'm obliged to wish you happiness in your new life. Although happiness in the absence of indoor plumbing is a debatable concept.

A slow smile began on Gideon's face, and his blue eyes sparkled. With a shake of his head, he put his hand on his chest, as if the sight of her was more than his heart could bear.

In this life and the next, you're my only hope at happiness.

Happiness can be close by, even if your heart is far away.

Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.

You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain.

No happiness gives happiness until you share it with someone.

Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!

Ah, happy years! once more who would not be a boy?

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.

To live among friends is the primary essential of happiness.

After a war, after a concentration camp, I find it's not too difficult to be happy.

What produces the general good is always terrible or seems bizarre when begun too soon. The Revolution must stop when it has perfected public happiness and liberty through the laws.

I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.

But, like all happiness, it did not last long.

Our stories remind us how precious and fragile life can be-- and that we must risk our hearts everyday to know happiness.

Whatever affection we have for our friends or relations, the happiness of others never suffices for our own.

Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.

The greatest happiness is to sneeze when you want to.

Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned.

Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.

[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.