Happiness Quotes
But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?
What's fun for other people may not be fun for you- and vice versa.
Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
I don't know why my smile has become a signature pose. I think it's a nice change. I think people want to see happiness, so a smile is what can bring that. I didn't make it my trademark on purpose.
Blaming is so much easier than taking responsibility, because if you take responsibility … then you might be to blame.
You can be happy if you are willing to let go of your past and leave yourself unencumbered so you can fly freely.
If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don't, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way.
True happiness is not found in any other reward than that of being united with God. If I seek some other reward besides God Himself, I may get my reward but I cannot be happy.
Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.
Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don’t have to do it, but it’s here if you choose to come back to it.
Mara, that's the life I want to give you. That's what I'm offering you. I want to fill you life with color and warmth. I want to fill it with light. Give me a chance
A woman's happiness is in throwing everything away to live for love.
The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.
It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own.
..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.
My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.
Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross Domestic Product. attr to Buthan's King Jigme Singye Wangchuck
A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy
If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.
It's one thing thinking something and another thing knowing it.
If you are unclear about what attitudes you adhere to, you will have a difficult time evaluation which ones are not serving your highest good.
Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.
Rest and peace should not be left until you're deceased. They are two vital life incredients everybody needs and seeks.
You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.
The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love?
There are ultimately two choices in life: to fight it or to embrace it. If you fight it you will lose - if you embrace it you become one with it and you'll be lived.
After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share?
The reason that so many fail to find happiness is that they fail to find gratitude.
She smiled, and there it was again, that aching pressure in his chest. Love, or a heart attack. Kind of the same thing.
My dogs have been the reason I have woken up every single day of my life with a smile on my face.
He who needs only coarse food, water and drink, and as pillow his folded arms will find happiness without further search.
It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.
You can have small moments of happiness in life. You certainly can’t expect years and years of it.
Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
Put a smile on your face. Don't sit in the waiting room of life. Go do something, happily.
If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people.
